"The Post"
Starring Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks
Metacritic Review
Alan: If this movie does not move you, it is likely you don't know "the history."
And if you dislike this movie, there is a good chance you don't want to know the history.
Currently, Trump is reprising The Horror.
If you haven't the patience to focus the details -- and "the devil is in the details..." -- you have become a "consumer unit," grasping after "the glib," determined to "amuse yourself to death."
For me, the central illumination of "The Post" was the movie's insistence that The Press is NOT infallible.
In fact, mistakes are inevitable. People who have gotten beyond "the puerility of perfectionism" understand that "imperfection" is "a given." At regular intervals, reporters deliberately misrepresent what they know to be true, or generate "fake news" with enough passion to make Trump blush.
But...
The Press, "at its best" -- and despite its corporate, capitalist limitations -- is, in the main, comprised of people sufficiently interested in Truth to correct regular doses of deliberate deceit by dedicating themselves to the long-haul, low-torque pursuit of factualness and veracity.
To see how this pursuit plays out in real life, watch what happens to Trump (and his fellow cultural terrorists) when The Press finally uncovers enough felonious/treasonous dirt that The White House crashes-and-burns - or at least dies from a thousand cuts. (Lest we forget, they "got" Capone on tax evasion.)
Meanwhile, The Despicable One's supporters -- ever critical of The Lamestream Press -- reveal their true colors as delusional conspiracists genuflecting before "birther" Trump and embracing the epistemological degradation of nutritional supplement salesman, Alex Jones.
For me, the central illumination of "The Post" was the movie's insistence that The Press is NOT infallible.
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In fact, mistakes are inevitable. People who have gotten beyond "the puerility of perfectionism" understand that "imperfection" is "a given." At regular intervals, reporters deliberately misrepresent what they know to be true, or generate "fake news" with enough passion to make Trump blush.
But...
The Press, "at its best" -- and despite its corporate, capitalist limitations -- is, in the main, comprised of people sufficiently interested in Truth to correct regular doses of deliberate deceit by dedicating themselves to the long-haul, low-torque pursuit of factualness and veracity.
To see how this pursuit plays out in real life, watch what happens to Trump (and his fellow cultural terrorists) when The Press finally uncovers enough felonious/treasonous dirt that The White House crashes-and-burns - or at least dies from a thousand cuts. (Lest we forget, they "got" Capone on tax evasion.)
Meanwhile, The Despicable One's supporters -- ever critical of The Lamestream Press -- reveal their true colors as delusional conspiracists genuflecting before "birther" Trump and embracing the epistemological degradation of nutritional supplement salesman, Alex Jones.
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