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Chapter 444 Freedom Is Dead
Looking back at the Oscars in recent years, "The Shape of Water" broke everyone's prejudice against traditional monster-themed films.

"Three Billboards" has won widespread attention and optimism for its profound script and nuanced emotional portrayal.

I still remember that "Spotlight", which won the Oscar for Best Picture, also explored the value of news and the beliefs and bottom lines that journalists should stick to. It also involved the game between reporting the truth and business.

But if it is really compared, it is not difficult to see that Spielberg's strong personal style, his vision, his focus, or the best display of the multiple themes included is a historical duel , the accompanying sense of ritual and precise emotional explosion points are exactly what "Focus" tries to avoid.

For Spielberg, the dreamer, the script of "Washington Post" seems to be mythical and radiant today. It does not suppress his emotions at all times like "Focus", and seriously discusses the issue of news ethics. and the difficulty of investigation.

It is more like praising pure news ideals through films, which is more important than ever in the eyes of both the United States and China today.

Will the revealed Pentagon Papers cause negative losses and collateral damage to American soldiers?

This is one of the important perspectives that "Focus" will take, and the script has no way to entangle more on this issue, although the commercial elements of the Post's upcoming listing are also involved in this film to avoid the film from falling into a binary opposition , but due to the nature of the event itself, it will somewhat have the atmosphere of a war between good and evil.

As Spielberg showed in "Bridge of Spies", he did not take a step towards innovation in audio-visual language. Everything in "Washington Post" reveals the old-school calmness, and "Player One" with the help of Industrial Light and Magic " and other films, films that rely more on narrative can magnify the director's thinking.

Fortunately, Josie, one of the screenwriters, is also a master of excavation. Among the few works that involve news, they are all hard goods. Therefore, in Ding Cheng’s opinion, the script does not fall into the cliché that biopics often fall into. The characters who make decisions There are convincingly detailed portrayals between eye-catching historical events.

The growth process of Aunt Mei's role is almost textbook-like, from trembling at the beginning of her speech, to making a decision against all opinions at the end, and becoming the real commander-in-chief of this battle.

But at the end, the moment she walked out of the court was a bit unnatural. It should have been a great victory. To highlight Kai's strength through the backbone of the newsman, what is needed is an equal perspective rather than a soft holy light. All women along the way.

Unlike the story of a reporter fighting against a huge machine alone, the game presented by the "Washington Post" is the apex of this professional ecological chain, the compromise and confrontation between business giants, newspaper bosses and top politicians.

This also leads to a relationship network that is difficult to present in the underlying ecology, which is the choice between personal friendship and professionalism. Politicians will get closer to journalists in order to benefit their own public opinion.

For Chinese people, what is familiar is this intricate network of relationships. Relationships and authority have been highly bonded since ancient times. What is unfamiliar is Ben’s unwavering professionalism. The only way to defend publishing rights is publishing. This This sentence may even cause a lot of people to smile bitterly.

Because the power we are facing is highly unequal and the entire social system cannot tolerate this kind of persistence and rebellion. Nixon has no ability to make the entire journalism disappear. No matter how powerful his power is, he may be restrained. This is what we see The dreamiest place to wake up to, isn't it?

After reading the script, Ding Cheng fell into deep thought. If he had to use one word to sum up his emotions, then "Focus" represents hope, and "Washington Post" represents remembrance.

It is also an elegy for Spielberg to use the past to satirize the present.

It is also possible to pretend that we still have the environment and the opportunity to make changes through this outdated obsession, and that our survival can coexist with dignity, and tell the next generation that everything is not so bad.

But I don't want to deceive myself, this is an era when blind ideals can kill people!
As a star, I live in a cautious and cautious life every day...

Today, it seems that the newspaper industry can even be labeled as classicism. Its seriousness requires that both editors and readers must be rational enough. What it pursues is not emotional catharsis. Each report is the truth and is In order to make changes, not to stir up emotions and build 10W+ in this post-truth era.

The popularity of the Internet has contributed to the prosperity of the so-called self-media. It seems that the spread is faster and everyone has more right to speak, but in fact, how much of it can be called news?

Instead of just a few hasty rumors?

One of the biggest advantages of newspapers is its non-recyclability, while the greatest convenience of the Internet is not in the hands of the people. A report can be spread across the country within a few hours, but it can disappear within a few minutes. As if never existed, is this freedom?
The news has a surname but no roots. This is the most absurd magical realism. In this war without gunpowder, Ding Cheng did not see the evenness brought about by the First Amendment to the Constitution, but the high-handed media control and indiscriminate control. The ban on rest is advancing overwhelmingly, step by step.

When the huge machine thinks it has the truth, it also destroys its credibility. The masses would rather believe rumors than official announcements, and even sneer at them.

Those who are really providing high-quality news have become marginal figures on the verge of extinction, while there are more and more moths who can swagger and make money by simply washing the manuscript.

There are very few portrayals of the masses in the "Washington Post". No matter what the national conditions are, the corruption of the media cannot be achieved by a powerful single-handedly.Freedom of the press can cultivate the rationality of the masses, and this kind of rationality can eventually endow the media with a strong supervisory power, and only then can the media become a real conscience.

(End of this chapter)