真相2015

「I know what it's like to be bullied. To feel like they're too strong, and you're small and powerless. But you're not. And doing this will show them that.」


「Asking questions, that's important. Some people are gonna say it doesn't matter. One side or the other's always gonna say you're being partisan. But you stop asking questions, that's when the people lose. Now, that may sound hokey, but I believe it.」


「Thirty minutes from now, someone somewhere is gonna be doing a story about this guy, doing a story about us.」


「We seek the truth. that's what we do. You're supposed to put yourself out, seek the truth and take what comes from it.」


「You're supposed to question everything. That's your job. We're supposed to question everything, and, what, you won't even question this?」


「Daddy? Daddy, please stop.」


「Why didn't you ask me? Because God knows everybody else did when the shit hit the fan. Why didn't you?
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Ask you what?
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Why didn't you ask me if the documents were real?
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Because I knew I didn't need to.」


「F.E.A Fuck 'em all.」


「Do you know what it would take to fake these memos?
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Mary...
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No, this is important. It would require the forger to have an in-depth knowledge of the 1971 Air Force manual, including rules and regulations and abbreviations. He would have to know Bush's official record front to back to make sure none of the memos conflicted with it. He would have to know all the players in the Texas Air National Guard at the time. Not just their names, but their attitudes, their opinions, including how they related to one another. He would have to know Colonel Killian kept personal memos like this for himself in the first place. He would have to know how Killian felt at the time particularly about his superiors and then First Lieutenant Bush. He would have to know or learn all of this in order to fool us as you assume he did. Now, do you really think that a man who takes this kind of time and precision then goes and types these up on the Microsoft Word? Our story was about whether Bush fulfilled his service. Nobody wants to talk about that. They wanna talk about fonts and forgeries and conspiracy theories. Because that's what people do these days if they don't like a story. They point and scream. They question your politics, your objectivity. Hell, your basic humanity. And they hope to God the truth gets lost in the scrum. And when it is finally over and they have kicked and shouted so loud. We can't even remember what the point was.
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But you didn't prove it. You didn't prove Ben Barnes got the president into the Guard. You didn't prove the memos are real. The burden of proof is on you.
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By that standard, the Times would never have run the Pentagon Papers. The Post wouldn't have listened to Deep Throat.
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Ben Barnes is hardly Deep Throat.
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Ben Barnes has confessed to abusing his power to keep some of the richest, and most privileged sons of Texas from getting their asses blown off in Vietnam.
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Mrs. Mapes. Don't you think it's possible, just possible that some of those fine, young privileged men, as you call them got into the National Guard on their own merit?
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No, sir. No, I do not.」


「Hey, Mary. I believe you.」


「To my fellow journalists in place where reporting the turth means risking all. And to each of you... courage.」

这种伟大的电影，当然，它不是水门事件，或许已经谈不上伟大，但还是很洗脑，很多时候，我总是发现某些美帝的片子就是赤裸裸地针对我们这里的社会现象的洗脑，比如发布未经证实的文件，立刻招来网络口水的质疑，这样的桥段，天天都在发生，影片呈现了专业和非专业，还有专业在非专业铺天盖地的质疑中要保持怎样的操守。比如体制的压力下，一帮人统统下岗，却一个个满满的courage，是对真相的热爱或者说是信仰生出来的勇气，好像是雾霾天里吸了一口纯氧。凯特布兰切特演出了干练强势，更衬托得对雷德福的柔情和童年创伤令人唏嘘，雷德福的气场更不必说了，出场时的垂垂老态到结尾时已经一扫而空，和布兰切特喝酒电话那一场戏结尾那个俯身撑在阳台上的镜头充满深沉的力度，想想水门事件到现在快半个世纪了，他还在！

       真相，truth！多么令人热血沸腾的一个词。所有的新闻工作者不就是为了真相而工作吗。我想所有从事新闻的人在接受职业教育的第一堂课应该就是要无论如何找到真相吧。但是大千世界，利益驱使的社会，真相就算是找到了，你确定你看到听到的就是真相吗，too young,too simple! 现在的社会机制里面，所有的真相大部分被掩埋，你看到的不过吃处理过的真相，也有可能是你认为的真相。
       我们要的是事实！真是别再瞎扯淡了，真相已如西风飘，对于所有的社会问题，所有的过去和历史，我们要的是事实和经过，而不是某些人口中真相，谁要是再更我说真相是这样的或那样的，我是真想一口浓痰啐到他的脸上。
       Mary Mapes一个人无力抵抗那么多男人的群攻，这更是来自于她无力抵抗她父亲的虐待。和Rather的深厚情谊无法言表，对于事实的挖掘不遗余力，但是面对布什总统的强大后盾团，弱女子怎能经受得起轮番的质问呢。Rather虽有对于职业精神的高度守护，但是面对那么多的忠实观众，以及对于Mary Mapes的信任，他就像一个已无力再战的老将，缓缓落下大幕。
       当所有人都在追寻真相的时候，一个完整的事实，又是何其的珍贵啊！