華盛頓郵報展現了老記者們的高光時刻
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作者：雕刻時光（來自豆瓣）
兩年前奧斯卡獲獎影片聚焦，讓我作為一個記者而自豪，華盛頓郵報上周看完，讓我覺得這一事件是多麼的有意思，或者至少某一刻，確定這個時間有它的歷史語境。
有時候演員勝過一切，一個城市的房間是所有演員的聚集地，將他們聚集在電影中，最有效的方式，由導演斯皮爾伯格呈現在這裡，將你最喜歡的演員聚集在一起,斯特里普最大限度的演繹，精湛的演技飾演了kay，以至於你沒有想到過，這全是人為的。你目視著他在銀幕前的所作所為，並想替她在董事會上說no。如同其他在電影中不管有怎樣處境的的每一個角色，他們都是由一些我們在其他電影看到的人飾演，並且我們很樂意再看到他們一次。
我忘記我曾經在什麼地方看的電影。但我確信的是每一個看電影人都很快樂。聚焦講述了一個棘手的針對教父犯罪行為的調查，此調查由波士頓環球報為經濟好轉的手段而著手，最開始刊登在美國的報紙上。我們知道華盛頓郵報發表五角大樓的報告，絲毫沒有傷害任何人,當我走齣電影中的冒險的時候，我笑容滿面。斯皮爾伯格，用一個完美的笑話，包裝了這一部電影。1976年的電影，所有的總統先生的第一個鏡頭，成為了華盛頓郵報的最後一個鏡頭一個警衛發現有人闖入水門。這部電影充滿著自命不凡的語調，告訴我們這部電影只不過是另外一個更加有趣事件的前傳。這就如同克里斯多夫諾蘭的系列電影的帷幕，使得蝙蝠俠連續故事遠沒有完成。
華盛頓郵報，就如同總統先生和聚焦一樣，達到了特定的結尾。出版了劃時代的一系列新聞。最終結局光明，出版在繼續，大量的報紙充滿著無所畏懼的新聞，並且用卡車運往街邊的小商販。過去也曾這樣表現。每一個新出版的新聞就是一個事件。在水門事件期間在星期天時報工作，看到電報非常興奮，因為這就是泰晤士報和新聞周報宣布他們的新的社論的前夜。每家報紙必然發布的水門事件的報告，將推動事件緩慢向前。
現在，我從走廊拿到的紐約時報發布的重大的調查報告，這些報告有時候昨天已經發布在網路，我前一晚在Rachel Maddow那裡聽到他們討論，大部分通過Chris Haye等等，更不用說通過他們的專門小組。沒有什麼新鮮出版的東西，新聞持續的發布著無用的反應，分析和含混不清的事件。很少有讓人在出版前夜屏住呼吸的專家權威新聞，雖然它已經完成。總統的twitter擁有巨大的促進作用。
華盛頓郵報讓人興奮，是因為每一個在熒幕前的人，擁有著這樣一個預設前提，華盛頓郵報擁有一則新聞想要告訴世界，且通過他們的耳朵改變世界。有時候我在家看電視，我不能確信哪些新聞不再報道。甚至不能確定它發生與否。有時候，我獲得的新聞充滿著雜音，以至於我想扔掉它。
Spotlight, the Oscar-winning movie of two years ago, made me feel proud to be a journalist.The Post, which I finally saw over the weekend, reminded me how much fun the business is. Or at least was once upon a time. I"m pretty sure it still has its moments.
Sometimes casting is everything. A city room is a collection of characters, and the most efficient way to put that across in a movie is the way director Steven Spielberg chose here: bring together a bunch of your favorite character actors and let them have at it—the degree of permissible overacting set by Meryl Streep, who as Kay Graham turns in the kind of bravura performance that you never for a minute forget is all technique. (You watch her do a scene and want to hold up a board that says "10.") Just about every role in the movie of any consequence is played by someone we know from somewhere else and are delighted to see again. Like Matthew Rhys fromThe Americans, and Bob Odenkirk and Jesse Plemons fromBreaking Bad, and Tracy Letts fromHomelandandLady Bird, and his wife, Carrie Coon, fromFargo. And Michael Stuhlbarg, who"s in everything these days but I remember chiefly fromBoardwalk Empire.
I don"t remember watching a movie where I was more certain that everyone in it was having a wonderful time.
Spotlighttold the story of a gritty investigation into the deviant behavior of priests that was undertaken by theBoston Globeas the financial sun was beginning to set on American newspapers. We all know that publishing the Pentagon Papers did theWashington Postno harm whatsoever, and I walked out of the movie about that adventure with a big grin on my face. Spielberg wraps up the show with a wonderful joke. Thefirst sceneofAll the President"s Men(1976) becomes thelast sceneofThe Post—a guard discovering the 1972 break-in at the Watergate. The soundtrack swells with portentous chords that tell us the story we"ve just watched is but a prequel to another that"s even niftier—like a stirring Christopher Nolan curtain that makes it clear the Batman saga is far from done.
The Post, likeAll the President』s Men, and likeSpotlight, is about reaching a specific end—the publishing of a series of epochal news stories. Finally an OK is given, presses rumble, and bundles of newspapers brimming with dreadnought news are tossed off trucks to vendors on street corners. That"s how it used to be. Every newly published story was an event. During Watergate, I worked Sunday nights at theSun-Times, and it was exciting to watch the wires because that was the night whenTimeandNewsweekannounced their new editions, each with its inevitable Watergate report sure to move the ball another few yards down the field.
Today, the big investigative story in the issue of theNew York TimesI retrieve from my porch and hold in my hand is something that was released online sometime yesterday and I heard discussed last night by Rachel Maddow—and probably by Chris Matthews, Chris Hayes, Lawrence O"Donnell, and Brian Williams too, not to mention their guest panelists. Nothing is ever actually published anymore; news oozes out into an unceasing slurry of reaction, analysis, and babble. There"s far too little news to fill a breathless evening of cable news punditry, but nevertheless it is filled. The president"s tweets help immeasurably.
The Postwas exciting because everyone onscreen and in the audience embraced the premise that thePosthad news to tell that would turn the world on its ear. Sometimes at home watching TV I"m not sure what news is any longer. I"m not sure it even exists. Sometimes I get so stuffed with hubbub that isn"t news that I want to throw up.
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