The story tells that in the largest political scandal in the United States in the twentieth century, the "Watergate scandal", former FBI deputy director Mark Felt disclosed to the "Washington Post" reporter a tip that was unfavorable to President Nixon, which led to Nixon's resignation. . At that time, he did not reveal his identity and used "Deep Throat" as his code name. It wasn't until 2005 that Mark Felt admitted he was "Deep Throat".
The film seems to be a non-fiction report. The plot is not complicated and there is no dramatic conflict. Use a lot of lenses to express Felt's inner feelings. Trying to justify Felt's approach. At the same time, it also reflects many hidden truths concealed by the democratic and free system in American society from another aspect. The Watergate scandal resulted in the removal of President Nixon from office. Yet its influence is far from over.
Everyone knows that democracy is a good thing, and they also believe that the United States is the country with the most mature democratic system so far. This system enables social stability, people's freedom, and economic development. The American people are very proud and happy, and then use this as a standard to forcibly promote this system to the world and blame countries that do not implement this system. The ultimate goal, of course, is to build a unified Earth led by the United States.
Here, I don’t want to examine whether a system that I think is good is also applicable to other regions, and I don’t want to use a so-called good system to logically prove that other systems are not good. The method used by the country to implement this system is just to see whether this system is as glamorous and perfect as it appears on the surface through this video and other information that I have come into contact with.
From the film, we can know that the FBI, as an independent agency of the government, from the very early Hoover era, in addition to its own work to maintain domestic stability, it also has no scruples to collect a large number of Chinese people, especially It is the privacy of politicians, and tracking and eavesdropping are omnipotent. In the Watergate scandal, the use of convenient power resources to spy on and steal the information of the other party's political party. After the incident, under the personal instruction of the president, on the one hand, the FBI was asked to stop its investigation of the incident, and on the other hand, it boldly announced to the Chinese people that the FBI had conducted a thorough investigation. Felt and his colleagues looked at such false reports with mixed emotions and could not laugh or cry.
Think of the TV series "House of Cards" that aired in the United States in the past two years. A senior American politician once said that 90% of the plot here is true. Think again of the once sensational Snowden incident. Before this, the United States had been tirelessly accusing China of cyber attacks, but after the Snowden incident, everyone understood that the United States not only used the Internet to search people's privacy at will, but also eavesdropped on the phone calls and emails of allied leaders. .
Seeing these things has aroused many emotions.
Feeling one, the media in the United States is indeed very free. All kinds of shady stories about the Watergate incident, the political party power struggle and the Snowden incident were all exposed by the media. And the protection system of speech in the United States just gives many media the courage to keep breaking the news. Promote the richness of American society. This is worthy of our praise and reference.
Feeling two, there is so much information for the media to break the news. This information is tried to cover up by the government, which makes it more valuable for breaking news. And these truths that the government has covered up are, of course, the filth that cannot be allowed to exist in the democratic society of the United States but has always existed.
Feeling three, trying to cover up this dirty behavior, like a rag, wiped this and that, and finally became the dirtiest thing. Using this rag to cover my shame is even more disgusting and disgusting.
Feeling 4, compared with the mature democracy of the United States, the farce of all martial arts staged in the Congress hall is naturally very funny. It also appears that American democracy is more civilized, more sophisticated, darker, and more obscene.
The democratic system is a better system that people can choose in today's society, and it has a very good role in guaranteeing the supervision of those in power and the various rights of the people. However, we also have to see that it does have some drawbacks. The tyranny of the majority over the minority is an obvious one. In addition, in an environment where people's wisdom is not open, democracy can only ensure the correctness of procedures, but cannot prevent the evil behind it. It often becomes a fig leaf for evil. Encourage those in power to devote themselves to using the democratic system to cover up ugly behavior. Even in a country like the United States, hypocrisy often emerges. As reflected in the film, all the scandals in the Watergate scandal. Therefore, while improving the democratic system, we should pay more attention to the enlightenment of democratic concepts.
The film ends by calling Felt "the most successful whistleblower." I don't know if I'm complimenting him or scolding him. I've always disapproved of whistleblowing. I remember that during the Cultural Revolution, Shu Wu, Huang Miaozi and others made a weekly ideological report, exposing themselves and reporting to others. He also advocated the act of "righteousness and annihilation" of the son sue the father. In my opinion, that kind of reporting makes these "intellectuals" Sven disgraced for the rest of their lives. And those who are sons, one is to teach less and the other is to be beaten. Whistleblowing, no matter what the legitimate reasons are, whether it is public or private, whether it is the behavior of an individual or a group, whether it is big or small, is disgusting.
Liam Neeson plays Felt in the film. Less heroic and courageous, more mature and prudent. In a shady environment, doing these shady things, no wonder.
My rating: 6.0.
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