First of all, please allow me to express:
If I was there...
Of course this is just a story, so all speculations are limited to "false guesses".
I am a reporter. And a fanatical obsession with investigative reporting, the more complicated it gets. So, sitting in the movie theater watching this movie, for the first time, I lost the relaxation it deserved—I couldn't help but have a tough but quite enjoyable experience working side by side with a reporter played by Russell Crowe.
Yes, I was there! In order to get every new progress, I thought about various breakthroughs synchronously, and I almost took out a notebook to take notes.
It's definitely a professional instinct.
Maybe outsiders will find it very boring, or think that they have seen a narcissistic lunatic, but the person involved has already been too high. Especially when you get a very heavy "exclusive news", you are excited enough to fall into such a fantasy: you are among the crowd of people on a bustling street, all the people, in the state of slow motion, All are going against you! And you are alone, led by confident emotions, and have no fear of being swept away by the surging crowd.
That confidence comes from the fact that you are one of the few people on the outside who knows the truth.
That's the fun of being a journalist. Thinking about it now, it's actually quite vain.
BTW, because I watched it so much that during the two hours of the film, I was filled with a sense of professional responsibility, and my subconscious was still foolishly asking myself to say: There is no excuse for refusing to answer every incoming call - What if it's work-related? In the end, my viewing was interrupted seven times by the phone, and it was really all work-related. What can I say?
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After reading the ratings, thousands of people rated it at six points. This shows that State of Play is destined to be enjoyed by a certain professional group of people.
Hey, I said, Russell Crowe did a really good job. At least let you see a more real side of "Lao Niu Ji" (now you should believe that I have enough reasons to say so) - when inquiring about things with familiar informants, the way is soft and flexible, like a water snake; He is also a layman in dealing with life-and-death situations, and he can't be as handsome as 007; the desire to get major reports sometimes makes him ignore the principle of "protecting friends first"; In front of the last layer of "window paper", what nonsense is there to say, pierce it! ! Regardless of whether there is enough psychological preparation for the content behind it, "piercing it" must be the focus of all professional passions at that moment.
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Kevin Macdonald, I don't doubt why this Englishman loves to shoot black stories. Because he came from the most chaotic city - Glasgow. Every time I think of going to Glasgow, I feel a little bit in the mood to go on an adventure. This is a black city. Even standing in front of the central train station, there is still no sense of security. Even if he opened his mouth to ask a traffic policeman for directions, as soon as he opened his mouth, the pronunciation of each word floated towards "slanted upward", which was really full of ghosts. Conversations like this always make my brain wander, thinking that facing this policeman might have a terrible night job.
Off topic again...
pull it back.
Kevin Macdonald is not a first-line director, but he still inherits the blood of British directors. The story is told neatly. The coverage of locations, characters, and especially the presentation of the lines, is full of that British restraint I love so much. The focus of energy is all on the ability to "go to the bottom" of clued reasoning. Simply put, it is a kind of "drilling" force.
The biggest flaw in this story, I think, is that when the progress of the excavation reached the stage of "giving some clues in general", the screenwriter easily arranged for the female thief who stole the bag, brought a dozen photos, and took the initiative to find it. the reporter. This kind of insight is really fake!
In addition, I couldn't find any bright spots in the filming and editing part of the film. For example, want to use the kind of shock that the subway brings to the people waiting on the platform before it arrives to elevate the pre-homicide tension? come on~~ Anyone who has a little car experience, how could they be shocked by this small formation.
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Please let me express my emotions at the end.
About Stephen. He found Cal and said to him: i think she's not suicide.
When you put together all the pieces of information to finally complete the whole jigsaw puzzle, you find that this bad guy, while stating a fact, is actually intentionally telling our handsome reporter Cal's investigation to what he has against him. Going in the direction of help: destroy those forces that threaten him, so that things can progress in his own favor.
Borrowing a knife to kill is the plan that many people have when facing media reporters.
Thinking of this, how can I not be emotional? Because every report I have done, the final completed puzzle is almost the same as this electricity story - every interviewee, he is willing to tell you something, or refuse (sometimes serious, sometimes ambiguous), each Behind this behavioral choice is nothing more than a kind of interest driven. Sometimes, as a reporter, what we think the most is looking for the driving point of everyone's interests, so as to help identify the distance between the obtained information and the truth.
Everyone is profit-seeking.
That's a really cool summary.
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