When a reporter picks up a camera, he often has a question: Do you want to be a fly on the wall?
Whether to record reality purely with the lens like a fly, or to "participate" in reality for a better artistic effect. More importantly, when someone is injured, oppressed, and in need of help in reality, whether to step forward or stay behind the camera becomes a "survival or destruction" question.
The issue is particularly stressful for war correspondents. Because compared to ordinary reporters, the cameras of war reporters are always looking for gunshots, which is why the protagonists in the film named themselves: Gunshots Club. There are also deaths where the gunshots are heard. Behind a photo is often a corpse, and a "good" photo is full of pain and blood. Right and wrong are life and death. When a successful war reporter picks up a camera, he often has to give up many things that ordinary people take for granted, and when they have harvested photos and put down the camera, the pressure of giving up these things is It will burst into their brains in an instant. So they have to feel double pain every day in picking up and putting down, one from in front of the camera, and one from behind the camera.
This is a good subject and a very "playful" profession. It's a pity that this film didn't make good use of that. The story is scattered and trivial, the characters are isolated and thin, and the whole film doesn't hit me as much as the picture of "The Hungry Sudan", although I don't know how many times I've seen this picture. Not to mention the classics "Inverted Ace" and "Nightcrawler", which also discuss journalists doing multiple-choice questions on flies, and even the supporting roles of reporters who shoot gang fights in "City of God" are much better than this movie. Blind the good subject of a war correspondent.
A successful war correspondent is first a reporter and then a person. Because what he wants to do is to let more people see sin, injustice and death, so as to better enable the entire human society to pursue justice, pursue justice and save lives. I believe that the reporter did what he could to help the child after filming, because no one can understand the value of life better than them.
Not all soldiers love the sound of gunfire, but every war reporter longs for it, longs to be where it sounds.
"Why don't you let me die" - Eugene Smith, a war correspondent who protested to his superiors about going to the war zone.
The title comes from an article about the Chinese war correspondent Tang Shizeng from the WeChat public account Char Siu Past
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