The film is directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep. This film adapted from real events is based on one of the most disgraceful political scandals in American history, the "Pentagon Documents" incident shortly before the Watergate incident.
The challenge faced by the core staff of the "Washington Post" before and after the incident is the starting point of the film. "Washington Post" was founded by Aunt Mei's father. After that, her husband was in charge of running the newspaper, and Aunt Mei took over after the death of her husband. However, in this era when white men dominate everything, although she is an issuer, she has been ignored and despised. She is not truly recognized. Board members see her as an insignificant fiction. The film does not portray Aunt Mei as an immutable image, but pays great attention to its transformation process. From the beginning, she has been fighting for and trying to have a place in the occasion dominated by male hegemony, and the audience can clearly feel her powerlessness. In the end, she spoke bravely and fearlessly. Pay tribute to this woman who seeks feminism.
Another key figure in the film is Ben Bradley, the executive editor of the newspaper starred by Tom Hanks. Compared with Aunt Mei, Ben’s image is relatively flat and fixed, but it does not weaken his charm of putting the truth first, having professional ethics, working all night, dedicating himself to journalism, and always working hard to defend freedom of the press. For a film like the "Washington Post", technology alone is not enough, good directors and actors are not enough, it needs a social soil. What is sad is that other people's media and reporters are taking the highest risk and are not hesitating to become enemies of the highest authority in order to restore the truth to the public. When thinking of some recent social hot news, I can't help but wonder, what are our media and reporters doing? As long as the current media is profitable from making big news, it will be sloppy and rhythmic, regardless of what the truth is! "News is the first draft of history. He should present reality instead of harvesting anger."
At the moment when the female boss decided to issue it without hesitation, tears were in her eyes. "The protection system that the founding fathers gave to the freedom of the media is to give full play to the role of the media in protecting the democratic system. The media serves the ruled, not the ruler." It is also well said.
Movies can only be used as a tool for the awakening of civic consciousness, but cannot be a force for us to change reality. Both reporters and news should present the audience and readers objectively and reasonably on the basis of facts. While there are many people in the grandstanding headline party, many dark sides are still under the water, and the facts we know are only part of it.
Still believe it will get better and better.
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