Meryl Streep plays a female reporter who has been working for forty years, a liberal, the leftist currently defined by the United States. Invited by the hawkish senator played by Tom Cruise to conduct an exclusive interview in order to promote a new set of US government strategies in Afghanistan. At the same time Tom Cruise was interviewed, this new battle was already underway in the mountains of Afghanistan. The interviews of female reporters wanted to be wonderful and kept asking sharp and core questions, but the senator’s answer was also quite firm, that is, to trust the government, the government has sufficient conditions, the government needs to continue to fight this war on terrorism, the government is the only one What is needed is the support of the people, and where the support comes from, of course the media is needed. Based on her forty years of interview experience, female reporters intuitively feel that this will not be a successful strategy. More importantly, this is a unilateral news that the media has no way to verify, such as interviews with the army to witness the success of the strategy. . So she insisted not to publish this news, and had a heated argument with her boss. She asked her colleague, where did the news principles that she insisted on in the past have gone? And her colleague also questioned her, is it wrong that as long as there is a news point and truthfully report what the other party said?
Indeed, this is the state of the American media after 9/11, that is, in the movie, the senator confidently said to the female reporter that this six-year war has not been promoted by the media with the government? At that time, any remarks against the government's military actions against terrorism would be regarded as unpatriotic behavior, and the US media also self-disciplined to avoid such criticism. It's just that the longer the war goes on, the more the original lies or misinformation will be exposed. So the media began to reflect on what they did wrong.
What they did wrong was to unconditionally receive information from the government without conducting third-party verification, which was originally the most basic requirement of the media, and it was precisely the lack of verification that made the people believe that what the government said was correct. But the truth is that the government quoted a lot of wrong information, intentionally and unintentionally.
The American media is becoming more and more entertaining, which is also a problem for this film to reflect on. TV stations that insist on serious news are acquired by commercial media organizations. Serious news occupies less and less time in TV stations, and TV screens are full of young people. Blonde beauty, the US military in Afghanistan is definitely not as attractive as the every move of an entertainment star. Like the female reporter in the movie, she is also grateful for being able to have a job in the TV station. Finally, facing the conditions set by her boss, that is, do you still need the job or leave in order to stick to the principle, she chose the former because she needs this job to support her family.
Said it is an international politics class, because it allows us to better understand the thinking of the American hawks, and to be more accurate, the thinking logic of the Bush administration. According to different standards, we can judge whether they are right or wrong, but in fact, there is no absolute in international political issues.
But what I am most interested in is the university professor played by Berber Fury in the film, who teaches a young student who used to be passionate about politics, but after seeing the ugly attitude of politicians and disappointed with the government, he began to evade. He hopes his student can understand that indifference and escape are actually the most terrifying things. Don't think that you can stay outside the world and live your own free life. Changes in the general environment will still affect your own small life. He said that Americans nowadays are often those young people who have not benefited the country the least, but are willing to join the society and even their lives. Look at those American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. Many people actually come from the bottom of society, but they choose In this way, on the one hand, in order to have a better life in the future, returning from military service, you can have more opportunities, such as studying and scholarships. On the other hand, it is also out of a sense of participation in this country. , These people are not lack of blind obedience. But those who have enjoyed the benefits of the country evade this social responsibility comfortably and watch what is happening in this country indifferently. These people are very smart. They could have done more. For example, they could use the votes in their hands to deny those politicians who they thought would be bad for the country and would not be good for their lives. But they chose not to participate and not to do it.
He said to the students: "Even if you own a beautiful and luxurious car, but you can't buy gasoline, you can only drive on broken roads. So why do you want a car like this?"
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