Stephen Spielberg is not only one of Hollywood's most famous and successful directors, but also one of the smartest and most talented. And fictional ideas, such as: Jaws, and encounters close to the third type, and ET, but was able to transform this type of film to a fully personal cinema presents his concerns and psychological pain through them.
Spielberg's Intelligence
The Post is a testament to Spielberg's cleverness. Trump, focusing on a leading female figure in the American press, and her presence at the time was already a big one, in a clear gesture to the powerful feminist movement these days in Hollywood.
The film is set in the corridors of the press in the 1970s, where the Vietnam War is still raging, especially after the leak of important documents in which many secrets recorded by the successive governments, and compete The Times and The Washington Post for the publication of these documents with a fierce war by the government not to Publish them of course.
The story of the movie
The main characters in the Washington Post: Kay Graham, "Meryl Streep," the successor of the newspaper after the suicide of her husband, who inherited the newspaper directly from her father, it was illogical or reasonable to have a woman in this role, but the absence of other hereditaries made the burden to wrestle throughout the film Others' doubts - and personal doubts - about themselves and their constant fear that they do not have the resources to do their job properly.
The second character, Ben Bradley, "Tom Hanks," in charge of editing the newspaper, has two conflicting desires between the publication of documents and achieve a head start and his book the name of his newspaper and his name of course in the history of the press, and pushes him to retreat the previous friendship relationship with the late President Kennedy, which condemns some of these Leaves.
The film was co-written by Spotlight's Josh Singer in 2015, which was also in the press about exposing the sexual abuse of priests. The Post suffers from the flaw of its predecessor, the slow rhythm that loses its pleasure. This made him appear in the first half of the film, but Spielberg was able to breathe a lot of life into the second half, especially with the dramatic escalation of events, and Meryl Streep starred.
Weakness point !
However, this did not prevent the film's main weaknesses being the flabby text, the intense directness of the speech, both when it comes to the freedom, importance and power of the press, or the role of the editor-in-chief of the Washington Post, Kai Graham, as the first woman to hold such an important position, and the challenges she faces as a lady, We have two consecutive scenes in which almost the same words are repeated: the first between Bradley “Tom Hanks” and his wife Tony “Sarah Paulson”, and the second between Kay “Meryl Streep” and her daughter, and the first could have been deleted completely; because in addition to being repeated it also did not It is a completely dramatic justification.
Director's Message
Spielberg brilliantly used the trump cards I mentioned at the outset.He focused on the fall of former President Nixon and other presidents involved in the Vietnam War, a clear reference to Donald Trump, with a focus on jokes and clever comparisons that make the scenes almost unforgettable. We also focused on Kay Graham's character, both in drawing characters where she was the most complex and sophisticated or in terms of photography. The scenes Antabha where confusion and disruption between the inevitable decisions that must be carried out immediately.
As for the most impressive and enthusiastic footage in those that monitored the publishing process, the collection of words, and the emergence of the newspaper, where the camera followed the movement of printers in an excellent way, especially with the music of John Williams, which was at its best in these parts.
Conclusion and my personal opinion
In the end, if you bet that The Post will become the best of 2017, and the next cinema icon due to the weight of the names of his heroes or artistic director, I regret to tell you that you lost the bet, after all is only a good film, you may come out of it frustrating if your expectations are high .
As for directing, although it was Solberg who saved the film from a resounding fall, he did not deserve anything but a nomination for the Oscars, and not win in any way.
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