"Blackwater?"

Ding Cheng looked at the script that Participant just sent, and it was a social theme?

Spotlight, Green Book, The Washington Post are all the work of this company, forever dedicated to the black government.

The protagonist, an environmental lawyer based in Ohio who has just been promoted to junior partner in the law firm, receives a call one day from his grandmother's neighbor who says that his livestock have all died, and that DuPont is contaminating the land with chemical waste after buying it.

The protagonist of the call was very embarrassed, as a corporate lawyer, specializing in defending large chemical companies, that is, the opposite of his neighbors, and even worked with DuPont lawyers on several occasions.

Take the video home with me and inform my wife that she is going to go home once to scout and see if she can help.

When you come to this land, you will be barren, like a cemetery, all the animals are dead, and the dead animals have all kinds of diseases and organs, which is unbearable.

Deeply shocked, he returned to the company, and argued with the boss to reluctantly agree, thinking that it was just a simple submission of some documents and a basic procedure, after all, the company's business is to defend large groups and not to take them to court.

What I didn't expect was that this nod would uncover the black waters of DuPont for more than half a century.

After reading the script, take it without hesitation!

I have seen director Todd Hines's previous work "Carol", and the retro film texture and delicate and moving emotional processing can be called the year's stunning.

Not to mention the female number one Anne Hathaway, in the years after winning the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for "Les Miserables", her acting skills have also stabilized.

Tim Robbins, the veteran of the Shawshank Redemption, is also a master looking forward to cooperation.

Unlike the social events adapted from the Washington Post, which often show group portraits of working together, this script is based on the protagonist very precisely. From beginning to end, it tells a complete and focused story about a person's emotions and life transformations.

An honest man who is diligent and diligent!

Filming officially began, the camera just began to pan along the gradient curtain to the conference room, and the entire empty conference room was only the protagonist alone patiently and tirelessly placing documents, and then at the beginning of the meeting, the boss played by Tim Robbins announced the good news that the protagonist had become a partner in the law firm.

At this moment, no one could have predicted that what awaited this outstanding employee would be a rebellious and doomed lonely journey.

The character is actually a hesitant protagonist who speaks with a slight stutter and sways between the system and justice.

Shortly after the meeting, when the protagonist West Virginia's fellow rancher, an uneducated rancher, rudely asks him to be his defense attorney in his case against DuPont, the protagonist stutters and makes the protagonist appear extremely gentle and polite, explaining to him that he is the opposite of Tennant as a defense attorney for DuPont.

But when his grandmother's name was mentioned, he began to hesitate, his eyes swaying between the rancher, his assistant, and the boss behind him urging him to a meeting. Affection and reason are embedded in the good nature of the protagonist, dragging him into a dilemma.

The scene shifts to the protagonist's family. Anne Hathaway's wife, who was also a lawyer, is still able to keep the house in order as a housewife.

Grandma turned out old photos and told the beautiful memories of the protagonist of his childhood riding a horse on the ranch, which invisibly dragged him to the ranch.

In just a few strokes in the opening part, he has used many details to reveal the character of the protagonist, and he began to gradually empathize with this kind and gentle lawyer.

This is a long battle of a lonely man against the world, and when the audience has entered the life of this little person, they have been placed in an isolated and cold case with him, and they have begun to embark on this tormenting, long, and long-lasting confrontation journey together.

Although the character of the protagonist is warm, the overall atmosphere of the lens language is cold and restrained, deep and depressing. The cold-toned, coarse-grained film style is paired with a soundtrack that is sometimes low and roaring, sometimes delicate and sad, creating an atmosphere and mood of coldness and helplessness.

The unstoppable timeline that runs through the whole film restrains the coordinates of the entire case process.

The camera returns to 1975, three young Chinese New Year's Eve entered the black waters, and the youthful skin was in close contact with the black water, swimming frantically. It didn't take long for him to be dispersed by two of the ship's environmental monitoring staff, who cursed them for being a group of bear children.

It seems that adults are teaching ignorant children, but in fact, no one knows that the adults here are actually no different from these bear children, living ignorant in a huge scam under the system.

The protagonist's surprise when he first sees the ranch is nothing compared to the series of shocks that follow. The so-called pasture has become a cemetery, and all the cows raised have gone crazy and deformed after drinking sewage, and have to be killed and buried.

It is also on this ranch that the protagonist witnesses the events for the first time, as a witness to the farmer shooting the last mad cow. For the emotionally delicate protagonist, this is a real emotional touch.

When he officially took over the case and confronted Phil, the leader of DuPont, the capitalist finally tore off the mask of hypocrisy and self-confidence, and scolded the protagonist in public, and since then the protagonist's career has begun to be in full bottleneck.

A daunting room full of information becomes the first shot of the enemy's desire to erode the protagonist's will, but he sticks to his patience and sorts out important clues from the complex information.

The first thing that completely broke the worldview was that the PFOA substance found in the clues has always been highly viral, affecting hundreds of thousands of people under polluted waters, causing unexpected cancers and malformed fetuses, all with DuPont's knowledge but deliberately concealed and bypassing the ignorant government environmental monitoring system.

The seemingly stubborn farmer is just an uneducated herdsman, but he never compromises, and even holds a gun outside the house while he is sick, which represents the most direct demand of the proletariat for seeking fairness and justice.

And when he was diagnosed with cancer due to Blackwater, the flame of life gradually extinguished, but his anger was transferred to the witness protagonist, and he could only stand on a lonely path of rebellion against a huge interest group without hesitation.

After three years, the case finally raised enough evidence and witnesses to cooperate, and ushered in a turning point in the confrontation with DuPont, and successfully applied for medical guardianship.

As long as this step is passed, everything will usher in the dawn of justice. However, things once again exceeded the protagonist's expectations, constantly eroding and torturing this ordinary lawyer.

Eight years later, the results of the blood sample test under medical monitoring have not been released, and the protagonist has suffered a collapse of trust and cold reproach in front of the thousands of people who once supported blood tests, and has never received a new case, the salary has been compressed to 1/4 of the previous one, and the huge tuition fees of the three children have caused great pressure on the family, even if he is as tenacious as his wife Sarah, his confidence has begun to collapse.

At such a point in time, his wife and boss finally began to re-examine the past ten years. The camera also uses the mouths of the two and all the audience to express the extraordinary human brilliance of the protagonist, an ordinary little person:

He was willing to take all the risks for a stranger who needed his help, and you and I may not understand what it was, but it was no failure!