As a male person born in 1995, there is a somewhat familiar but alienating taste in my mouth after having watched The Post.

It talks about a cover-up that spanned across 4 U.S. administrations on the Vietnam War from 1955 to 1975.

But it isn’t quite so simple, the picture is rich with messages about progressiveness and moral, it shows how close the past is to reality today and it tries to refreshen our minds that all of which we’re seeing it’s all in the past but still present today in some form.

There is a duality to the message the story is trying to convey, which are inevitably intertwined and follow a logical and factual climax that starts and ends at the same place and at the same pace. It is a beautiful crafted evolution that depicts real life events of different natures but of same spirit.
 
 The first part is freedom of the press, now, I don’t suppose to compare what reality was like back then, to today, because to my knowledge in actuality there are no such, evident problems. Today we face a different beast. Then the government scared newspapers into not publishing facts, today the government just buys newspapers so they can do their bidding. I do not presume to know how today is going to end, but I know that in this movie The Washington Post faced all odds and jumped inside an unprecedented pool of political heat. It showed that a government cannot hide from it’s population and that certain people are going to make sure every story is true and covered, regardless of the consequences because truth is what matters, nobody in charge can or should make decisions for everyone on its own, be it a person or a government.

The second part is about female empowerment. It talks about women, in particular Kay Graham, the first female newspaper publisher who struggles to overcome years of “unfair normality”, where women aren’t supposed to do such things as owning a newspaper. It so beautifully depicts how she’s lost amidst a sea of unknown and uncertainty, her inability to speak loudly because her subconscious forces her to think she doesn’t matter. Until a point where she realizes the power in her hands, something she had all along and the will she has to take her needs and wants into her own hands and decide for herself with courage and focus. This all sounds like textbook, but let me tell you something this movie doesn’t do wrong, it doesn’t just “blame men” and society altogether, not entirely, it makes clear that because of society and the way it was shaped back then, most women did not think AT ALL of what more they could do if only they wanted to, they were just happy to have the life they had, like Meryl Streep’s character said. I think this is very important to note because it doesn’t always have to be about hate between person and society or sex against sex, it can just be an individuality message to everyone, to think more about who you are and what can you do and why you should do it, if you should do it.

This duobus is enveloped in finely crafted cinematography that primarily directs at visual keys that extrudes passion and life out of the film, which is what Steven Spielberg excels at. Most noticeable of these are: the way the camera is on close-up shots at the printing machine, showing how newspapers used to be made, showing key words for the story on the letter casts and consecutively when the printing starts the desks in the news room shake holding an abstract sense of relentless fortitude and accomplishment, the glow the view acquires at the end of the movie which hymned at a brighter tomorrow, putting an end to a steep trail.

I must admit. I have not idea about how much of the movie is actual to the facts of what really happened back then and how much isn’t, the core message is there and it’s clear to everyone, the details might have gone to a storytelling side of things, some might have been lost but one thing is certain, this movie has done a marvelous job at portraying two of the biggest problems society still is enduring as of today, which in a sense is a little scary and if I really think about it, it makes me feel like I felt when I first saw 1976 Network’s speech Howard Beale made about American society’s anger.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwMVMbmQBug

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