Looking back on the Oscars in recent years, "The Shape of Water" broke everyone's prejudice against traditional monster-themed films.

"Three Billboards" has won wide attention and optimism with its profound script and nuanced emotional portrayal.

I still remember that "Focus", which won the Oscar for Best Picture, also explores the value of journalism and the beliefs and bottom lines that journalists should adhere to, and also involves the game between reporting truth and business.

But if you really compare it, it is not difficult to see that Spielberg's strong personal style, his vision, his focus, or the many themes he encompasses are best displayed, and it is a historic showdown, accompanied by a sense of ritual and precise emotional flashpoints that "Focus" tries to avoid.

For Spielberg, the dream maker, the Washington Post's script seems like a myth today, radiant and radiant, without suppressing his emotions like "Spotlight" at all times, seriously discussing the ethical issues of journalism and the difficulty of investigation.

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

Will the exposed Pentagon Papers cause negative losses and additional damage to American soldiers?

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

As Spielberg showed in "Bridge of Spies", there is no step in the audiovisual language innovation, everything about "The Washington Post" reveals an old-school calmness, unlike films such as "Ready Player One" with the help of Industrial Light and Magic, films that rely more on narrative can amplify the director's ideas.

Fortunately, Josie, one of the screenwriters, is also a master of excavation, and the few works that involve news are all hard goods, so in Ding Cheng's view, the script does not fall into the cliché that biopics often fall into, and there are convincing details between the characters who make decisions and the eye-catching historical events.

The growth process of Aunt Mei's character is almost textbook-like, from the trembling and majestic speech at the beginning, to the final decision to become the real commander-in-chief of this battle.

But the moment she walked out of the courthouse at the end was a little unnatural, it was supposed to be a great victory, highlighting Kai's strength through the backbone of a journalist, and what was needed was more of an equal perspective, rather than a soft light and all the women along the way.

Unlike the story of a journalist fighting a giant machine, the Washington Post presents a game at the apex of this professional ecological chain, where business magnates, newspaper tycoons and top politicians collide and collide.

This also leads to a network of relationships that are difficult to present in the underlying ecology, which is the choice between personal friendship and professionalism, and politicians will close their relationship with journalists for the sake of their own public opinion.

For Chinese people, what is familiar is this kind of intertwined relationship network, relationship and authority have been highly cohesive since ancient times, and what is unfamiliar is Ben's unwavering professionalism, the only means to defend the right to publish is publishing, this sentence will even attract a wry smile from many people.

Because of the high degree of power inequality we are facing and the whole social system cannot tolerate this kind of persistence and rebellion, Nixon has no ability to make the entire journalism disappear, no matter how great his power is, there is also the possibility of being restrained, this is the most fantastic thing we seem, isn't it?

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

Borrowing from the past and the present, it is also an elegy for Spielberg.

In the same way, we can pretend that we still have the environment and the opportunity to make changes, that our survival can coexist with dignity, and that everything is not so bad for the next generation.

But don't want to fool yourself, this is an era when blind ideals can kill people!

As a star, I live in a trembling cautious life every day......

The newspaper industry now seems to be able to even buckle the hat of classicism, its serious requirements are that everyone from the editor to the reader must have enough rationality, it does not pursue the catharsis of emotions, one report after another is the truth, in order to make changes, not one by one to incite emotions to build this post-truth era 10W+.

The popularity of the Internet has contributed to the prosperity of the so-called self-media, which seems to spread faster and everyone has more to say, but in fact, how many of them can be called news?

Instead of a few rumors that are not just a few hasty strokes?

One of the biggest advantages of newspapers is that they are not recyclable, and the greatest convenience of the Internet is not in the hands of the people today, a report can be spread all over the country in a few hours, but it can disappear in a few minutes, as if it never existed, is this freedom?

In this war without gunpowder, Ding Cheng did not see the parity brought about by the First Amendment, but overwhelmingly pushed forward the high-pressure control of the media and endless bans, step by step.

The huge machine, which thinks it has the truth, has also destroyed its credibility, and the masses would rather believe the rumors than the official announcements, or even scoff at them.

The people who are really delivering quality news have become marginalized to extinction, while the moths who can make money by swaggering and washing their manuscripts are increasing.

The Washington Post portrays the masses very little, and the degeneration of the media, no matter what the national conditions, cannot be done by the powerful. Freedom of the press can cultivate the rationality of the masses, and this rationality can ultimately give the media a strong supervisory power, and it is possible to make the media a true conscience.