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The Post (2017)

Bald Move Prestige

Bald Move

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.51K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

We saw The Post tonight, the star-studded retelling of The Washington Post’s decision to publish the Pentagon Papers, risking financial ruin and jail time. Told from the perspective of The Post's owner and her editor as they wrestle with their relationships with previous and current presidential administrations and the legal, financial, and ethical risks of defying the government. The film is gorgeous and well written and tells an important story of how vital a free press is to the health of our na Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Everybody it's a Ron and Jim got his name. Yeah, right. And we just saw a movie we saw a movie called the post

0:08.4

Which is about ticket to prove it. You got the stub to prove it, which is about the Washington Post decision to publish information

0:18.0

about the Pentagon Papers, when it was leaked to them, about the futile nature of the Vietnam War and their ensuing legal victory.

0:28.0

And it was an amazing experience for me, Jim.

0:31.3

What did you think?

0:32.3

Yes, not since spotlight last year or maybe

0:37.8

theater before have I seen a movie that was so important. I think in our day and age that is very, very

0:48.5

important for people to see. Yeah. To remember maybe the role of the the press within our society and journalism, proper journalism.

0:57.0

Uh-huh. Yeah, I would say it was a great

1:03.0

actors, who bring home the weight and severity of the situation.

1:06.0

I felt pretty smug through Lottis movie because,

1:10.0

as we've been talking about in our Baldy's preparation,

1:12.0

you know, I watched the Ken Burns

1:15.8

Vietnam War documentary.

1:17.8

A lot of the basic facts of the movie that are kind of, the movie is about those facts facts but it's more about the the art of

1:25.7

publishing and the the wrestling that goes into you know being a journalist and

1:29.9

owning a newspaper and making those tough decisions when you are you are against the

1:35.1

interests or the claimed interest of the government of the United States of America.

1:38.9

And I just you know know, the thing is, is like, I, when it's important, it's like, this is, this is not a liberal hatchet job.

1:50.0

And I like the fact that it's about, this this isn't this is almost an allegory about the

1:55.2

Vietnam War that's easily applicable to our day because as this movie makes clear

2:01.9

and as the Ken Burns documentary makes horrifyingly clear, this is a

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