Let's review The Post.  The Post is
directed by Steven Spielberg, stars Meryl
Streep,
Tom Hanks, Bob Odenkirk and Pat Healy.
This film tells the true story of the
Pentagon papers.
This is a big event that happened in
history right before Watergate broke.
It was a scandal that involved the
government's knowledge of things that
they weren't revealing to the public
takes place in the early 1970s and
essentially there were these documents
these top secret documents that
chronicles the US
involvement in the Vietnam war. It's an
example of old-school filmmaking that's
modern at its core.
It's a reflection of all we stand to
lose if news reporting in the outlets
that support it should vanish
especially in the face of a President
who strives daily to crush it.
It's the story of a woman washington
post publisher Catherine Graham played
here in a striking performance by Meryl
Streep who had to fight for respect at a
paper she actually owned
and even if its goals are lofty the
movie is so fleet and entertaining that
you never feel you're being lectured too.
This is a superhero movie for real
grown-ups.
Steven Spielberg's technical mastery and
narrative skills are such that
even if he was making a film about Tom
Hanks on a weekly shopping trip to his
local supermarket, it would still
probably seem intensely dramatic.
Much of it takes place in offices
drawing rooms and dining rooms.
There are no chases, no fights, no
romantic subplots
other than in a vietnam set overture in
which we see US
state department military analyst Daniel
(who later leaked the papers) when he was
embedded with u.s troops, no guns feature
either.
The New York Times has scooped an
exclusive on the Pentagon papers,
a document that had been recorded under
a directive by the american defense
secretary
Robert McNamara starring Bruce Greenwood
in the 1960s,
a whistleblower has released to the
newspaper these classified documents
that proved the US
government's complicity in perpetuating
the Vietnam war despite knowing full
well that it was a waste of lives and
resources.
In 1971 Richard Nixon is in the white
house and has continued with the
interference in Vietnam that started in
the 1940s.
Spielberg used real voice recordings of
Nixon to illustrate the President's
stand and instructions.
The Washington Post editor Ben Bradley
starring Tom Hanks and his reporters are
now seeking the best follow-up story, one
that will make them nationally relevant
as the editor of a family-owned local
newspaper in the 1970s. Bradley is
believably committed to the truth and to
the news,
he's also caustic and grumpy and
disdainful towards the newspaper board.
Bradley is a composite of the singular
persistent editors that would today be
battling against commercial priorities
and political arm twisting.
Meryl Streep plays Catherine Graham who
is the owner of the post is trying to
find her footing in a male-dominated
world
streep sets her pace showing the
conflict faced by a woman in a
male-dominated world to finally it bring
it home as she steps out of the wings
and confidently stands as an equal in
the all boys club.
First half that feels a little unfocused
because they're setting up real conflict
with Meryl Streep
who is the owner of the Washington Post.
She's thinking about going public with
the paper thus giving up some author it
why that she already has
and there are men behind the scenes
trying to abuse their power against her
because they think they can
and so that is also very relevant for
today but once they get the papers in
their hands the film becomes that
riveting journalism drama that i wanted
from the beginning.
The last half is extremely riveting that
first half though is a little tough to
get through but i would recommend seeing
the post and i'm gonna give it a 9.
This is still a good movie and one
filled with great work and you should
see it.
It may be said in the past but The Post
is a timely and urgent tale for the
present.
Thank 
