From an artistic point of view, it is a very good film

Declan 2022-03-25 09:01:18

A movie with a strong sense of art, very good. The rating is too low. However, as a historical film, it is a bit biased. Long was a dictator, and if Long was elected president, not Roosevelt, the entire history of the United States and the world would be rewritten. I don't know how World War II will end. Although such a person has done some good deeds to the poor, how to judge him, I personally think that there is more derogation than praise. I'm afraid this is also the reason why this film, although of very high quality, did not win an award.

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All the King's Men quotes

  • Willie Stark: Time brings all things to light, I trust it so.

  • Jack Burden: The friend of your youth is the only friend you'll ever have. For he doesn't really see you. He sees in his mind a face which doesn't exist anymore, speaks a name... Spike, Bud, Red, Rusty... Jack... that belongs to that now nonexistent face. He's still the young idealist you used to be, still sees good and bad in black and white and men as sinners or saints but never both and feels superior in the knowledge that you no longer can distinguish the two. That's what drives you to it. To try to stick the knife in. There is a kind of snobbery in failure like the twist to the mouth of a drunk.