I watched "Hoover" starring Xiao Lizi today. The movie is made forgiving, adding an element of loyalty and justice (or at least supposed justice) to a snarky, gloomy mogul.
The Lindbergh kidnapping case occupies a large part of the film. The last time I paid attention to this case was when I was addicted to Agatha Christie. Granny wrote the immortal "Murder on the Orient Express" based on this case. In that intercontinental train, Detective Polo identified and forgave all those who avenged. The train departed from Paris and arrived in Istanbul. In a way, it means that after 1453 the tentacles of Christian civilization re-entered the Muslim world.
I chose this movie because I read an article about Mactheeism in Dushu magazine last night. Obviously, compared with an evergreen tree like Hoover, Congressman McCarthy is indeed just like the lines in the movie, but he is only an "opportunist" in the history of the river. Political tools serve ideology, with personal desires for power permeating them. This is probably the subject of all politician biographies or movies.
What interests me more is that the film shows the rigor of the American judicial system bit by bit. Hearings, which are worth every penny, are simply a legal education. There is no absolute justice, only relative rationality.
It is a pity that, as a biographical film, the director of "Hoover" focused on filming the personal life trajectory of the 48-year-old FBI chief, but seemed to forget to film those who were monitored and persecuted by Hoover. Or the suffering of the people who are blackmailing. Among the people who have been hurt, in addition to genuine criminals, there are also a large number of left-wing people, chaebols, politicians and other celebrities. According to George Orwell's famous saying, "Whoever controls the past controls the present; whoever controls the present controls the future." Today's American social order is largely based on the bloody storms of those years. above.
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