The Los Angeles Times, the most influential national newspaper on the West Coast, has a tentacles of influence that can shake half of the North American continent.

This article, "Reading the 'Seven Deadly Sins' from Hugo Lancaster" written by Nicholas, easily shook the trend of public opinion in this American society. Leaving aside the self-reflection in the media and the criticism of the National Enquirer in the past month, Nicholas's perspective on the "Seven Deadly Sins" is clearly different.

When most of the media came into contact with the movie "Seven Deadly Sins", it was the same as Samosai in the movie, the first thought was to associate religion, and they saw more of the religious issues hidden behind the movie, which was faith, sin, and the most atonement, and the hidden core of this movie should be that the murderer judged the society as God and punished the seven deadly sins.

But this is not the case with Nicholas.

Nicholas almost avoided talking about the religious significance of the "Seven Deadly Sins", he believed that the film and the Seven Deadly Sins were just a medium, and the director and screenwriter Tong Guò reflected the social problems: social indifference created the breeding of the Seven Deadly Sins, and in the face of social darkness, social decay, and social problems, people chose to protect themselves, armed themselves with indifference, and refused to contribute to social change.

Just like the three characters in the movie, Samose chose to escape, Mills chose to resist but his strength was too weak or devoured after all, and the murderer used extreme means to deter the whole society. But the problem is that it seems, as if, as if, probably, probably, maybe, maybe...... Only the murderer succeeded.

Thus, the "Seven Deadly Sins" leaves an eternal question: we all know that this society is pathological and distorted, but what should we do? The movie gives a question mark in the story, the voice-over "This world is beautiful, and it is worth fighting for." I only believe in the second half of the sentence", which is really thought-provoking.

Nicholas's ingenious perspective excavates the realistic significance of the film, and also pushes the "Seven Deadly Sins" to a new level, making this work out of simple murder suspense works, but also from simple religious belief works, and becomes a mirror that reflects the cruel problems of social reality.

What is even more coincidental is that the afterglow of the turbulent Hugo incident in August has not faded to this day, making everyone feel the cold to the bone: even their most trusted uncrowned king has lost his blood, faith, and persistence, and they have resorted to commercial interests until they die. This is the fundamental reason why all people, the whole society, are attacking the news media.

If the single "Apologize" is a mockery from glory to death, then "The Seven Deadly Sins" is a flogging and torture from the heart of every media practitioner. Samose in the movie actually represents the media practitioner, he is a law enforcement officer, but he is running away from the idea of justice in his heart, he has tried and struggled, and now he has given up, he knows the darkness and decay of this society, but he has no way to make changes. This is the current state of the media profession.

It has to be said that Nicholas's perspective is sharp, which has also pushed the controversy for more than a month to a peak, and truly raised the Hugo incident from the pure Hollywood entertainment industry to the level of social problems.

Just as the murderer in the "Seven Deadly Sins" movie tried to use the Seven Deadly Sins to make a masterpiece and a masterpiece to warn the world, Nicholas's film review quickly became a social alarm bell, causing an uproar across the North American continent. This is a situation that New Line Films did not anticipate at all when it released "Seven Deadly Sins".

September was a disaster for any film. New Line Films originally wanted to use Hugo's appeal and the focus of Hugo's showdown with Brad to make "The Seven Deadly Sins" the only work to be the talk of the town in September, and then attract all audiences to the cinema.

But now the whole situation has changed dramatically.

A film review in the Los Angeles Times pushed the "Seven Deadly Sins" directly to the top of the topic, completely detonating the profound discussion that has continued for the past month and a half.

This issue of the "Los Angeles Times" set a new sales record since the 90s, selling 4.3 million copies in just 24 hours, and the follow-up sales still did not stop, and after two rounds of reprinting, this film review of Nicholas sold a total of 6.15 million copies in the United States!

This is not only the sales record of the "Los Angeles Times" itself, but also the sales record of all newspapers and magazines in the United States in the 90s! Since the birth of television, newspaper sales have been slowly declining since the 80s, and after entering the 90s, there are only a handful of newspapers that can achieve 5 million sales, even the "Wall Street Journal", "New York Times", "Los Angeles Times" and other top newspapers, the average sales are only hovering around 4.5 million, and this number has fallen exponentially after entering the 21st century, and in 2014, the sales of many newspapers were not even half of those in the 90s.

Therefore, the "Los Angeles Times" sold such amazing sales in one fell swoop, and people clearly felt the vibration of the entire North American continent.

Compared with the "Schindler's List", which caused an uproar at the beginning, the "Seven Deadly Sins" naturally could not be supported by the Jews, and the propaganda offensive and social impact were completely different. But the frenzy of public opinion set off by the "Seven Deadly Sins" this time even surpassed the heat wave created by "Schindler's List"!

This is actually a long process, as Nicholas said in the article, from the germination in the eighties, to the Rodney King incident, the Michael Jackson incident, this time after another representative events sensational in the United States, and even the world, thus directly spawning the August 5 rebellion, so that the whole society launched a challenge to the authority of the uncrowned king.

If the previous turmoil was only a blurring of the boundaries between media supervision, freedom of speech, professional ethics in the pursuit of truth and social values of the supremacy of interests, entertainment to death began to erode the news media; Then Nicholas used the carrier of the "Seven Deadly Sins" to push the whole incident from the news media to the level of the whole society: this is not only the problem of the uncrowned kings, the indifference and cruelty that go deep into the bone marrow are social problems!

This time, almost no one was exempt, from journalists to lawyers to doctors, from entertainment to sports to politics, from the media to universities to the workplace, and all the discussions began to unfold in a prohesive eruption that exploded in various parts of the North American continent.

Under the impetus of several major newspapers such as the "New York Times", "Wall Street Journal", and "Washington Post", more than half of the people in the United States have joined in this heated discussion.

Even Bill Clinton devoted five minutes to three questions to the topic at an official press conference; White House press secretary Mike McCurry. McCurry was also forced to hold a special press conference to respond positively to the recent denunciations of the news media.

With more than a year to go before next year's presidential election, media corruption, entertainment to death, and the supremacy of interests within the news industry have become important issues in this election.

Things have developed to this point, and they have been completely derailed, and it is no longer a simple Hugo problem, nor is it a simple "seven deadly sins" problem, which is a profound social problem that affects various fields such as education, economy, communication, entertainment, and politics. This may be a situation that no one expected, Nicholas did not expect, Hugo did not expect, and neither did Anthony, Colin and others, who initiated this qiē in the first place.

History is like this, inadvertently imprinted a profound trajectory, and the seemingly accidental events are often inevitable.

Perhaps, when Hugo wanted to give Michael Jackson a clean slate and chose to stand up bravely, he had become a catalyst for change today; Perhaps, as early as the Rodney King incident, Hugo expressed his indignation, which laid the groundwork for today's shock; Of course, it is more likely that when Anthony created the Golden Globe incident, the ignorant and young Hugo first appreciated the amount of the media, and the seeds were planted on that day.

"Seven Deadly Sins" stood on the cusp of the storm in an instant, and the social problems reflected in this movie are not fairy tales or fairy tales, but the real life that happens around everyone, and every detail and event in it is empathetic to the audience. Samose is the representative of the audience, not only a spectator of the story, but also a participant in the story, and Samose's confusion, confusion, and helplessness are also reflected in the hearts of every audience.

Nicholas's film review almost created the most vigorous publicity in film history for the "Seven Deadly Sins", and at the same time officially recorded the "Seven Deadly Sins" in history, becoming one of the most important works in film history, standing on the same line as "Male and Female Thieves", "Jaws", and "Citizen Kane", which changed film history and changed the course of society.

This is what no one expected.

However, objectively speaking, Nicholas's views are based on the core idea of the "Seven Deadly Sins", and he does not comment much on the film itself, and he does not even explicitly mention his own feelings about the film - although his article clearly admires the film.

So, in addition to the social repercussions caused by the movie, is "The Seven Deadly Sins" a good work from a professional film perspective? This seems to be a topic that needs to be continued.