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Author: Miss Stone
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Recently, Shitou's road to finding films has been extremely difficult, and there are really too few good films!
But Sister Stone still found this "fish that slipped through the net"!
Director Steven Spielberg has won more than two dozen Oscars for works such as ET (1982), Schindler's List (1993) and Saving Private Ryan (1999). people.
Actress Meryl Streep , two-time Oscar winner ("Sophie's Choice" 1982, "Iron Lady: Solid Tenderness" 2011).
At the 90th Oscars in 2018, she was nominated for the best actress for the film we are going to talk about today.
Tom Hanks , two-time Oscar winner (The Philadelphia Story 1993, Forrest Gump 1994).
Spielberg + Aunt May + Hanks = Oscar's strongest team
Friends, do you know the level of this film?
"Washington post"
The Post
2018.01.12
Vietnam war terminator
The story takes place in the United States near the end of the Vietnam War (1955-1975).
The Vietnam War was the largest and most influential war the United States participated in after World War II.
The result was a fiasco for America .
The Vietnam War was a war between South Vietnam against North Vietnam, but it was actually a war between South Vietnam supported by capitalist countries such as the United States against North Vietnam supported by socialist countries such as China and the Soviet Union.
In 1971 a man named Daniel Ellsberg captured the world's attention.
Historically, he was called the "Vietnam War Terminator" by the Americans .
In the film, the director tells the important historical background from the perspective of Daniel.
>>>>Pentagon Papers
Daniel was an anti-war activist .
Daniel Ellsberg in the film
He has been to the Vietnam battlefield and witnessed the cruelty of the Vietnam battlefield with his own eyes.
Daniel was in the Pentagon at the time, serving the Secretary of Defense, where he discovered an astonishing truth.
American politicians at that time knew that the United States could not win the Vietnam War .
However, no president wanted the Vietnam War to fail during his term.
So while the US government lied to the public that victory was in sight, it continued to send soldiers to the battlefield to die.
The Pentagon (The Pentagon): is the highest military command in the United States - the seat of the United States Department of Defense.
Daniel took all this in his eyes and completely gave up on the government.
At the Pentagon at the time, he was one of the few people with access to classified Vietnam War documents.
Then the anti-war activist did something earth-shattering.
He stole secret documents from the Vietnam War.
This is the "Pentagon Papers case" that shocked the world .
Choice of two newspapers
Desperate for the government, why did Daniel steal these classified documents and make copies?
He wants to hand over the documents to the media to expose the inside story of the Vietnam War!
Here are two newspapers in the United States:
The New York Times and The Washington Post (hereafter referred to as The Post).
In the United States at that time, the "New York Times" was in the limelight, but the "Post" was in jeopardy because of poor management.
The Post is a family newspaper and it was run by a lady named Kay (Aunt May) .
Originally, Kai's father passed the newspaper to his son-in-law. Who would have thought that Kai's husband would suddenly commit suicide, and Kai could only take over in a hurry.
As soon as Kai took over the newspaper business, a huge problem was placed in front of her .
If you want to save the dying Post, you need to go public.
Once listed, however, the paper is no longer a family paper.
This is not an easy decision.
Kaiming knew that her deceased father would never agree, so she decided to go public .
Just as Kay was battling for an IPO, their rival, The New York Times, dealt them a fatal blow.
The New York Times got some classified documents from the Vietnam War and published them!
The New York Times report was like an atomic bomb, which directly blew up American society.
The American people who knew the truth were shocked.
These high-ranking American officials, knowing that the war will not be won, still send American soldiers to Vietnam to die? !
The American people began large-scale anti-war protests and demonstrations.
On the other hand, The Post watched the sales and influence of The New York Times rise, but couldn't get anything of value about the Vietnam War.
But The New York Times couldn't be too happy for long.
Then-President Nixon was outraged and took a frantic revenge on the New York Times.
As a result, the court actually banned The New York Times from continuing to report on the Vietnam War.
Prior to this, there was no precedent in American history that banned the publication of newspapers.
Creation tricks people.
While The New York Times was banned, the Post obtained classified documents from the Vietnam War.
Once again, the choice is placed in front of Kay, facing the government's just-promulgated ban, to publish or not to publish?
How will Kai choose?
What will be the fate of The Post?
woman like air
Speaking of the brilliance of this film, Aunt May's Kai is really dazzling.
Kay, like many women of the day, had no job at all until her husband died .
After Kay took over the "Post", although she was the boss of the newspaper industry, her life was not easy.
In American society at that time, women had no social status and had little say in business and politics.
Ben (Hanks), the then executive editor of The Post, and Kay as his boss.
Kay made a small suggestion to the newspaper, but Ben dared to tell her not to mind her own business in person.
In addition to seeing Ben's confidence in his field of expertise, the fact that he doesn't respect Kay as a woman enough in his heart is also revealed.
At a meeting of newspaper executives, Kai sat beside a bunch of successful men, treated like air and completely ignored .
The newspaper people had dinner together.
After dinner, Kay didn't stay to talk business and politics with the men, but went to other rooms with the wives to talk about family affairs.
This has been ignored for a long time, and even Kai himself has lost confidence in himself.
She always relies on other people's ideas.
The Post's decision to go public was in large part due to the advice of the newspaper's management.
However, Kay's right-hand men disagree on whether to report the truth about the Vietnam War, and no one can help her make a decision.
To report the truth is to openly challenge the government, and may follow in the footsteps of The New York Times.
What's even more frightening is that the "Post" has just successfully raised its shares, and shareholders can withdraw their funds within a week.
If shareholders withdraw their capital, the Post will face more than just being banned, it is likely to go bankrupt.
But if you don't report it, what's your conscience as a media person?
Full of love for the newspaper industry and responsibility for The Post, Kay struggled to think for a long time.
This time Kai finally withstood all the pressure and made a decision independently.
When she bit her lip and stammered her decision, we saw the growth of an independent woman.
When Kay said , "This is my company," she was finally the owner of the company.
Media and Government Relations
The film mainly tells the story of the news industry, and the discussion of the news industry in the film is definitely worth talking about.
During the Kennedy and Johnson years, the media had a good relationship with the government.
Take Kay and Ben in the film, both of whom originally had a close relationship with the White House.
Kay, who holds the Post in his hands, is someone both presidents want to befriend.
Until President Nixon took office, senior White House officials were regulars at Kay's parties.
Ben had a close relationship with President Kennedy, who used to go to the White House for dinner every week.
There has always been such an unspoken tacit understanding between the American media and the White House at that time.
But suddenly the situation changed. The U.S. government told unforgivable lies to the people, and the media had the truth and evidence in their hands.
Can the old relationship be maintained?
The New York Times and Post have the answer with action, those days are over!
This secret document that crossed the station made the American media suddenly sober!
In the past, they called the White House brothers, but they were actually conniving the politicians invisibly.
The former Ben, as well as all American journalists, did not stand where they should be, and did not fulfill the responsibility of monitoring the government.
"If even the media doesn't hold the government accountable, who will?"
In the film, the judge made a summary:
"The Founding Father gave freedom of the press because of its duty to spread democracy and justice.
News is for the people, not those in power. "
In fact, after watching the whole film, I was moved but felt that the film was very idealized.
The conscience and ideals of the journalists in the film, as well as the public environment at that time, seem to be things of a distant era.
Looking at the current media , in this era that only cares about the amount of reading, there are only a handful of media with three views.
The "Tang Lanlan Incident" made people see how some journalists drink human blood, and all kinds of false reports flooded the Internet.
An article by Dr. Lilac brought Quanjian Group to the forefront, but before that, why did the media report the various so-called honors Quanjian won?
Where are the real journalists with a conscience?
The current network has made instant communication so developed, but in such an environment, how much media is standing and talking? How many are kneeling and making jokes?
As stated in the film, the media should spread democracy and justice, not for traffic or as a tool for some rights groups.
Real and objective reporting should be the basic requirement of the media.
It is the media's responsibility to speak up for the people and supervise social fairness.
But when will this objective and impartial media era come?
Text/Sister Stone
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