Pursuing the truth or exposing privacy???

Eunice 2022-03-25 09:01:15

I'm not very good at writing articles, it's neither deep nor interesting, but it's just a little bit of my
thoughts after reading it, please don't take it too seriously.

The decryption of the crisis is better than imagined. After reading it, it makes people think about many serious issues,
especially for reporters or people who often want to know the truth.
The era of events in it is very close to us, and the parties involved are still alive
. It looks very realistic, and the processing of the picture is also very bright and technological.
Before watching the news events that have been leaked a little bit, the movie will look better.

The biggest impact on me is that this film takes me,
a dead ordinary person who can be said to be a gangster, to a very high level to see
whether issues such as the disclosure of the website (the fifth layer) should exist. In the process of revealing the secret, he brought down the bank
, exposed the shortcomings of Kenya, and confronted the US government to expose the darkness of the war in Afghanistan.
Assange advocated not editing the full text and putting it on the website. This really feels like a revolution,
because the reporters of the fourth stratum have become more and more advanced. More and more unreliable Most of them often add their personal
perceptions to edit news. For Taiwanese media, regardless of the print electronic media, they have already tended to produce news
for commercial interests, self-interest, personal emotions, political orientation... and so on .
, I only believe 30% of the news, and the remaining 70%
can only be judged by myself, and the recent Director An also said that the people in Taiwan are very good, but the politics and the
media are very nonsense. Journalists
have lost the ideal of neutrality for the well-being of society and what the people want to know,
and transparency and leaks can also deter some illegal collusion.

However, as pointed out in the movie, if personal privacy is not edited, it will cause moral doubts about the safety of the
parties involved, such as diplomatic friends and intelligence officers who have helped the United States in private . I think Assange's

The intelligence revolution is definitely an avant-garde idea. It may have progressed for 50 years.
Because it is too avant-garde, the modern environment has not yet adapted to a
mature environment that can transparently monitor defects without harming people.

In the play, there is a paragraph about a US diplomat who is going to pack up his resignation. The
diplomat may have worked hard outside the country for more than 10 years to get a little
result, but it was destroyed in just a few months by the release of diplomatic documents by WikiLeaks
. I feel that maybe there is more empathy and more understanding of the hard work behind the leaks,
and sometimes diplomacy is also a way to maintain world peace in a country-to-country balance.
I really liked the two paragraphs of the diplomats off topic. The one that was leaked and scolded the presidents of other countries in the document was
very humorous. The professor who helped the American diplomat in the Middle East country finally escaped was
also very nervous.

Let's talk about the protagonist Assange. I believe he is a genius. He can come up with such a highly cross-generational
idea and put it into practice. It is impossible to do it without crazy persistence.
Before I met Daniel, there was only one person and one server. Income lived a life like a gypsy, and
had to endure loneliness and great pressure. Although I met Daniel, I met a lot of people, and
I also started to have funders for the website. In the end, I broke with Daniel because of my philosophy, and
Assange was a lone wolf . , can't integrate into any group, and can't listen to other people's opinions,
just keep doing it, how strong his psychology and belief are is the height of his achievements,
in the eyes of ordinary people, I think it is too admirable.

Then I talked about Assange's BC. It's a pity that this is based on Daniel's book,
so it is almost all filmed from Daniel's perspective. In fact, Daniel is the protagonist,
and Daniel himself also told the actor about his state of mind, so Daniel is in the The
character is very prominent and lovable in the play. BC is also very good in acting and has the feeling of a lone wolf .
But after all, I can't see myself. Many psychological dramas may use speculation and not so deep. For example,
I really want to know that Assange agreed to the invitation of Daniel's parents to be a guest but ran away in the middle.
Is he jealous or envious of the normality he has not experienced? Family? Was
his own childhood really so weird? And how did Assange feel
when he was betrayed again by his friends when he knew that the website was destroyed by Daniel and his friends?
Ah~ so many questions, and then I wanted to buy a book written by Assange himself Let's look
for clues that are not described in the movie. If this film is shot from the perspective of Assange,
BC should play more and not feel a bit tied, it is a completely different movie.

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Extended Reading

The Fifth Estate quotes

  • Julian Assange: Man is least himself when he talks with his own person. But if you give him a mask, he will tell you the truth. Two people, and a secret: the beginning of all conspiracies. More people, and, more secrets. But if we could find one moral man, one whistle-blower. Someone willing to expose those secrets, that man can topple the most powerful and most repressive of regimes.

  • Sarah Shaw: Do you think the President of Turkmenistan will be more upset that I called him a practised liar or that I called him vain?

    James Boswell: I don't think he's worried about the opinions of a mid-level foreign attaché.

    Sarah Shaw: That's why I signed Hillary's name to it.