Putting aside the long-excavated theme of press freedom and press ethics, the real novelty of "The Post" to me is that it creates a common female image that does not often appear in film and television works from such a display angle. Representative and corrective feminist paradigm——Kay
At the beginning of the film, Kay's stumbling rehearsal of the rhetoric with the banker really surprised me. She is not good at speech, business, and even without ambition and negotiating aura, which subverts my guesswork. The image of the devil. However, as the film progresses, I increasingly think that the somewhat clumsy old aunt Kay is more meaningful than the resolute and vigorous career women, because Kay's growth space fits the embarrassment faced by most women in this patriarchal context.
The feminist movement does not rise on the ground, but seeks a balance under the precondition that most important positions are held by men. The film is very frank about the performance of patriarchy. At the dinner, when the men began to discuss politics, the wives went down to discuss fashion and literature, and some board members directly expressed their distrust of Kay as a female manager, even Kay. I never feel that the position of a manager is something I deserve as a woman. Kay will not be an advocate of the feminist movement, because she is the representative of the beneficiary and comfortable women in the patriarchy. All this is only because of her shrewdness. After the death of her capable husband Phil, she was born to drag her from the protected upper class "wife comfort zone" to the workplace. Therefore, Kay's final decision reflects not only the bravery of women, but the bravery of weak women who have not been tempered by the society in a typical patriarchal society. I believe this is more than fighting against men in the workplace from the beginning. The bravery of women is more realistic.
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