The pursuit of the truth is the pursuit of the truth

Christy 2022-04-04 09:01:08

My 5-star recommendation: Denial. Based on a true defamation case. A few feelings:

1) There are a lot of dialogues in the film, between the heroine writer and lawyer, writer and friend, writer and opponent, writer and the public... The dialogue is very large and complex, involving the case, the law, and personal emotions etc., but it's all well written, enough to explain the plot, and less enough not to be all dialogue.

2) The problem with Chinese film and television dramas is that even a little professional dialogue cannot be controlled, so it is full of parents who are divorced from real life and flirtatious, because there is no threshold for writing, filming, and watching these lines (these must be written brilliantly In fact, it is not easy, but after all, it can be written even if it is poorly written), which eventually led us to produce a large number of very boring film and television dramas, with no ideas, no common sense, and technically mediocre, and some works are not even worthy of evaluation. Bad, its only characteristic is boredom.

3) The pursuit of truth is the pursuit of truth. Chinese people like to say that there is no absolute truth, this is nonsense, and the truth, like the truth, is not obvious and readily available. Because it is difficult to ask the truth, so there is no need to ask? It's not easy to make money, have you ever given up?

4) British actors are still more restrained and good at conveying complex emotions.

5) Gossip: The heroine is the current wife of 007. The male protagonists are also big casts. There is also Xiao Xianrou who is about to appear in "Dunkirk", although there are not many scenes, it is very eye-catching.

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Extended Reading
  • Turner 2022-04-06 09:01:07

    I know that as a Holocaust movie, it must not be enough: no cries, no denunciations, no tearful accusations. But as a legal film, its coolness and rationality shine through from start to finish.

  • Amiya 2022-04-08 09:01:13

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Denial quotes

  • Richard Rampton: My lord, during this trial, we have heard from Professor Evans and others of at least 25 major falsifications of history. Well, says Mr. Irving, "all historians make mistakes." But there is a difference between negligence, which is random in its effect, and a deliberateness, which is far more one-sided. All Mr. Irving's little fictions, all his tweaks of the evidence all tend in the same direction: the exculpation of Adolf Hitler. He is, to use an analogy, like the waiter who always gives the wrong change. If he is honest, we may expect sometimes his mistakes to favor the customers, sometimes himself. But Mr. Irving is the dishonest waiter. All his mistakes work in his favor. How far, if at all, Mr. Irving's Antisemitism is the cause of his Hitler apology, or vice versa, is unimportant. Whether they are taken together or individually, it is clear that they have led him to prostitute his reputation as a serious historian in favor of a bogus rehabilitation of Adolf Hitler and the dissemination of virulent Antisemitic propaganda.

  • Sir Charles Gray: Yes, this is a question I have to ask you, Mr. Rampton.

    Richard Rampton: Yes, by all means, my lord.

    Sir Charles Gray: My question is this: If somebody is antisemitic, antisemitic and extremist, he is perfectly capable of being honestly antisemitic, yes? He's holding those views and expressing those views because they are indeed his views.

    Richard Rampton: Well, yes.

    Sir Charles Gray: And so it seems to me, if it comes down to it, that the antisemitism is a completely separate allegation and has precious little bearing on your broader charge that he has manipulated the data?

    Richard Rampton: No, no, my lord. The whole endeavor of the defense has been to prove that the two are connected.

    Sir Charles Gray: But he might believe what he is saying. That is the point. That is why it is so important.

    Richard Rampton: My lord, if we know that Mr. Irving is an anti-Semite, and if we know there is no historical justification for Holocaust denial, then surely it is no great stretch to see that the two are connected.

    Sir Charles Gray: Yes. Thank you. Carry on.

    Deborah Lipstadt: What the fuck just happened? Anthony, what just happened?