"Journalism should serve the ruled, not the ruler"
This line is the Supreme Court’s statement on the victory of the Washington Post at the end of the "Washington Post" film.
What should a responsible newspaperman do? The Washington Post gave a fair and just, and at the same time, a leftist interpretation of the United States. (Why do you say that, Da Cong will analyze it later)
If you want to see the "Washington Post" as a trivial one, you have to dig deep into some dry goods that have not been written by other numbers. Next, Dah Cong will sort out for everyone.
After the end of World War II, the world structure was regrouped to confront each other, forming a "cold war" model globally.
Beginning with East Germany and West Germany, which built the Berlin Wall, the Soviet-American confrontation gradually shifted to Asia, that is, the Korean War. Thus, today’s North Korea and South Korea emerged.
This "new normal" division is also confirmed in Vietnam.
In the Geneva Agreement of 1954, it was planned to temporarily divide North Vietnam into Vietnam in a "peaceful" way. But in fact, both sides know that the Geneva Agreement is a piece of waste paper.
In 1955, the Vietnam War started, and it began to deepen during the Kennedy administration in 1961.
As Kennedy said in his inauguration speech:
"My fellow Americans, don't ask what the country can do for you, but what you can do for the country. Citizens of the world, don't ask what the United States will do for you, but ask what we can do for mankind together. Free to do something."
As a result, this marked that the United States itself had brought itself into the quagmire of the Vietnam War.
In the tenth year of the Vietnam War, that is, in 1966, the U.S. official issued a Vietnam War analysis report on its own. The report roughly means:
During the ten years of the US military in Vietnam, it has become more and more stalemate. It cannot win, but it will not lose. The most important thing is that this battle may be meaningless at the beginning.
This is the fuse of the famous "Pentagon Secret Document Leakage Case" in the United States, and it is also the beginning of the film "Washington Post".
Dan, an analyst in the "Washington Post", is one of the commissioners to analyze the Vietnam War. He knows the whole story behind the Vietnam War, and he also sees that the U.S. government is unwilling to recognize this established fact.
In other words, the United States is unwilling to be a loser, so it uses bigger lies to circumvent the lie that was wrong in the beginning of the Vietnam War.
So Dan turned back and copied the report for publication in the newspapers and media.
The film did not explain the reasons for Dan’s reversal. It only explained that when Dan got off the plane, he saw the press conference of the Secretary of Defense with a series of lies, and made up his mind to expose the face of the US government.
But in reality, Dan said in an interview that during his childhood, his father fell asleep while driving and caused a car accident, and his mother was killed in his car accident. This made Dan understand that even though his father had no intentions or intentions at the time, but In the end, it became a tragedy, which was caused by a momentary negligence and confusion.
Dan's outlook on life also changed drastically at that time. Dan used his experience as a metaphor for the U.S. government's state of the Vietnam War:
Because of the lack of supervision and restraint, the US government is like his father who is driving fatigued. If this continues, the United States will fall into a greater tragedy, so he stepped forward and decided to leak the secrets.
The following story is as described in the "Washington Post". The first article was published by the "New York Times", but it was quickly suppressed and banned from continuing to publish.
At the same time, the "Washington Post" got this report. The titles of "freedom and fairness, truthfulness and transparency" are hovering over the editor's edition of the newspaper and the boss Kay Graham.
Whether or not to publish this report has become a stimulus to the film.
"Washington Post" can be said to have been filmed by Spielberg with enthusiasm and enthusiasm.
This is also the "main theme" movie of American spirit that Spielberg is good at.
It is not difficult to see that Spielberg's mirroring in the "Washington Post", the exaggeration of the atmosphere, and the mobilization of emotions are all very sophisticated.
But I am also very familiar with many pictures and colors, all of which are so familiar.
For example, 2015's "Bridge of Spy", such as 2012's "Lincoln", such as 2011's "War Horse" and so on.
It can be said that a national treasure director like Spielberg no longer needs people to prove anything for him. Instead, people need him to make a movie every few years to prove something for the United States.
So, this year’s Oscar nomination is very interesting. There is no Spielberg for the best director nomination, but the best film nominee has the "Washington Post".
This aspect proves what I said before, in terms of the director's style, Spielberg's "old school" (old school) has been recognized by the Oscars, so this time the shortlist was accepted.
After all, a Spielberg is enough to hold up half the sky in Hollywood. Don't believe it. From the speeches of previous Oscar award stars, Spielberg has the most thanks.
On the other hand, the spirit and philosophy expounded by the "Washington Post" still have to be put into Oscars as a symbol.
Oscar wants the world to see that this year's "Washington Post" is in the same line as the previous films such as "Presidential Group", "I Want to Cover Up," "Good Night, Good Luck," and "Focus".
Many people understand the truth stated in the first step of the "Washington Post", that is, the spirit of American newspapermen.
But the great thing about the film is that the second step of the film's plot shows the level of women's pursuit of equality and liberation.
This has to mention Aunt May, who plays the boss of the "Washington Post". With this film, she has been nominated for the 21st Oscar.
In people's eyes, she is also the uncrowned king, she is like Spielberg, her existence is the proof of the highest rank.
Aunt May has always been a mainstay supporter of the Democratic Party of the United States, and she has made no secret of her political leanings.
She even made a very political speech at the 2017 Golden Globes, publicly accusing the current US President Trump (and Nixon is the same Republican).
And she is also a defender of feminism. Aunt Mei plays the role of the proprietress, which is really true.
In reality, the female boss Kay Graham and her father Eugene bought the "Washington Post" in 1933. After that, it was mainly her husband Philip Graham who expanded the development of the newspaper industry and let the "Washington Post" Go to a more mainstream and profitable model.
However, due to an affair and marital crisis between their husband and wife, Philip, who suffered from bipolar disorder, committed suicide, leaving behind a large newspaper group to be responsible to Kay Graham, who only held parties with political and business powers every day.
So at the beginning of the film, Kay Graham has never been in the state of a boss, and even has to recite his lines in advance for meetings.
In the 1970s, when the patriarchal society was concentrated, women could be said to have no status in the business world.
There is a paragraph in the film that explains the social status of men and women at that time.
When Kay Graham went to dinner with friends in politics and business, when men talked about politics, the women seemed to have received a signal and left the table one after another, and went to another room for a short time, so that the men continued to "communicate and discuss politics" at the dinner table.
As Kay, the female boss of the Washington Post, she should have stayed at the dinner table and talked with a group of men, but the social atmosphere at the time couldn't make her stay calmly. She also knew her and went to another room with her wives.
The director used such a small link to illustrate Kay's situation.
At the top of the business world surrounded by such a man, Kay is terribly difficult. Every step may be lost by the intervention of capital and patriarchy.
At the time of the "Pentagon Leak", the "Washington Post" was planning to go public.
As the boss, her primary original intention was to keep the "Washington Post" listing smoothly and to keep the family business prosperous; secondly, she must maintain the connections and friendships in her social circle.
But the heavens are left to the people, and the "Sophie's Choice" has once again fallen to Kay (why add it again, please go to understand Aunt Mei's movie "Sophie's Choice").
Did Kay Graham surrender the newspaper all over his body, or did he die to defend the fairness of the newspaperman?
In the face of all kinds of difficulties, she chose the latter.
But this is not over yet. When Kay Graham decided to publish, the legal counsel once again assessed that this publication may not only lead to the destruction of the Washington Post, but may also violate the law and send Kay to jail.
And she still insisted on publishing, this time the decision really sublimated Kay Graham's greatness as a woman.
Although the editor-in-chief was brave in the whole incident and worthy of everyone's respect, but more often, the editor-in-chief was just doing what he should do as a newspaperman.
Kay Graham, on the other hand, made the decision she made under the combined pressure of family business, interpersonal relationships, women's status, and personal family safety in that era.
Therefore, she is the director who wants to show women's equal rights.
Finally, let’s talk about the American leftist interpretation of the Washington Post. The so-called American left is freedom and equality, "war is not the answer", all cultures are equal, and social justice is pursued.
The hippies' "resistance to customs, opposition to war, love of freedom and peace" are the prominent representatives of the left.
The American rightists are commonly called "conservatives." Don't think that conservatives are good for nothing.
Conservatives value the family, have faith, and value the status of the country. Their attitude towards war is: in the face of evil, war is the only answer.
The movie "Forrest Gump" that everyone knows is a representative work of conservatives.
Think about it carefully. Jenny, the representative of hippies in "Forrest Gump", ended up taking drugs too much and contracting a disease (well, everyone knows what the disease is). In the end, she lost her life.
Even the film asked John Lennon to use the yin and yang tones in the interview to say the lyrics of "Imagine" he sang:
"No possessions, no religion too (no possessions, no religion)."
This is the most prominent feature of the film conservatives' satire on the left.
When Da Cong said this, of course he did not mean that "Forrest Gump" was embarrassing.
I just want to share it with everyone. In the movie, it is difficult to be politically oriented.
Even for art films, there is no way to express stories and characters without political ideology, let alone films like The Washington Post.
Left and right are not good or bad in the movie, only to the extent that you accept it.
In the "Washington Post", Nixon was not given a positive face. He kept his back to the audience, which also meant that the film wanted to portray Nixon as a conspiracy to destroy the image of the United States.
Therefore, the film will not tell you that Nixon was the first US president to visit China and became the first step in the normalization of Sino-US relations in the future. This achievement has attracted worldwide attention.
The film will not tell you that during Nixon's tenure, he signed an education bill to open the door for women to participate in college sports.
Nixon also supervised the peaceful abolition of apartheid in schools in the southern state, and so on.
The film doesn’t even think about it. After so many years of iteration, the American newspapers and magazines have gradually evolved into today’s American media introspection, why the gap between the reported polls and the real people’s thinking has widened.
The most obvious is the U.S. election at the end of 2016. The so-called “real polls” interviewed by newspapers and media at that time all pointed to Hillary Clinton who was going to sleep in the White House on the night of the election, but in the end, everyone knew who it was.
This has become the most torn apart in American newspapers, media and people's thinking.
Today, the reports of American newspapers and media are far inferior to WikiLeaks, which has been on the run.
So in fact, the "Washington Post" is a nostalgic work, remembering the spirit of the American newspapermen, because today, this spirit has been diluted.
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