While Rachel continued to spend protracted hours in the detention center, and when other reporters had stopped following up on the case due to stress or boredom, only one entertainment reporter popped up and asked for a live interview. Rachel's editor reluctantly said to her through the glass: We are losing focus. It is a great irony in itself when a case of fundamental principles is reduced to trying to grab the public's attention through an interview with an entertainment reporter. Rachel bluntly said in the interview that real journalists are prepared to go to jail to defend their principles, and you never have to worry about the government coming to you, because the government doesn't care how you find out about Paris · Hilton's place to eat. It is an indisputable fact that over the years the media has increasingly turned to lace and gossip, because truth and principles are not fashionable enough or entertaining enough. But in places where there is no freedom of the press, this trend is not without reason: if the public cannot get the truth on all issues of rights and principles, it will have to focus on the trivialities. . Who fell in love with who, who dumped who, who had plastic surgery, although these things are of little value, they are true after all, aren't they?
Rachel's husband and his lover accidentally met Rachel's lawyer in the restaurant, so he could only defend himself: the choice contains consequences, and this is Rachel's own choice. The old lawyer said, if you think Rachel still has a choice in this situation, then you probably shouldn't be together. For some people, there is always something that is difficult to compromise and give up, even in the name of love or family. As the lawyer put it in court: "I once told her that I was defending his principles and not hers, but it was only after meeting her that I understood that for great men, They themselves are fundamentally inseparable from their principles." But principles sometimes demand a particularly high price, which is the hidden side of the coin called greatness.
“What happens to the nature of a government when it is no longer afraid of being held accountable? The idea of it gives us shudders. Jailing journalists? It's not the work of a country that cherishes and protects its citizens." This remark in the film captures all the values of press freedom. Of course, the First Amendment does not always win the battle against national security in a world that is becoming more and more complex, and liberty is not the highest and only human value. Liberty may require appropriate concessions in conflict with other values such as safety and equality, but the fundamental guarantee of defending liberty from fatal violations is the right to know, question, and even oppose every compromise at the expense of liberty. When Americans say: "This is what other countries do", their tone is full of pride and superiority. But have to admit, they do have this qualification.
The setting of the finale of the film is really ambiguous. But if you attribute Rachel's motivation to defend her principles from beginning to end to a mother's instinct, it will drag the whole film down a lot. Or from the other side, it is precisely because Rachel knew from the beginning that revealing her source would not cause any harm to the "informer", but still insisted on the bottom line of a reporter and did not give in, which made it even more obvious. Such persistence is precious. And when the special prosecutor found out that the "traitor" he was trying so hard to track down turned out to be just an elementary school student who was still plagued by the mischief of his classmates, I seemed to see the cold ridicule on the corner of the screenwriter's mouth.
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