This is the first movie starring Tom Hanks after recovering from new coronary pneumonia. According to the type of film, it can be regarded as a western dirt road film. Because the background of the film was set in 1870, not to mention highways in the United States at that time, there were no ordinary tarmac roads. It's about Captain Kidd, after he was discharged from the army, he found a job and read the news to big guys from village to village, and charged ten cents per person. It's a job that barely makes ends meet. During the trip to the village, he met a 10-year-old girl, Johanna, who had lost her family and gave it to the government. The government was busy rebuilding and expelling the Indians after the war. There was no time to control. He had to take Johanna for 400 miles to prepare. Taste the hardships and give it to her only surviving relative.
The selection of "news" can be said to be a very interesting entry point. At that time, communications were blocked, and people living in areas with inconvenient transportation went to rest at sunrise and sunset. They were busy every day and confused, but occasionally a newspaper reader would come. Therefore, it brings news from all over the world (it seems to be the entire United States), so that everyone can get a glimpse of the silhouette of the world in their leisure time. The meaning of this kind of "reading news" has been sublimated several times in this film, and at first it only brought important news to the people, but later in the newspaper reading in the Red River Valley, the gap between the people of the South and the North after the Civil War was revealed.
Even though we already have a convenient means of accessing world information, in an increasingly cyber world, are we able to break the current information lock and cognitive limitations and see the truly important "big news"?
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