The 169th nautical mile of the new voyage: " beautiful friend ", Maupassant [French], produced by Houlang.
The Washington Post, nominated for Best Picture and Best Actress at the 90th Academy Awards, returned with regret and became the most controversial film. The film was released in the United States in December 2017 by Directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Meryl Streep, , Tom Hanks, and other well-known actors, based on real events that happened in 1971, it tells the story of the "Washington Post" before Publisher Kay Graham and editor Ben Bradley compete with New York Times to publish the Pentagon Papers to expose the government's massive 30-year cover-up of secrets involving four U.S. presidents. story.
From many perspectives, this film already has an Oscar-winning temperament. The whole film brings a nostalgic color to the audience. The online acting skills of the protagonists quickly pull the audience into the story, and they are not affected by it. Being bound by a heavy theme, it is not the stereotyped historical film in the impression at all, but it may be the content of attention that led to this result in the awards. Together with the Russian Chekhov and the American O. Henry, known as the "Three Great Masters of Short Stories in the World", in the second half of the 19th century, the outstanding French critical realist writer Guy de Maupassant wrote in his work " Pretty Friend" exposes the underworld of the press. In this book,
shows the charm of Maupassant's characters vividly and incisively, and ingeniously buries the satire into the story, which makes the readers of the time and the present think deeply. Traditional media, like newspapers, seem to have started from the day it was born. , is the tool and mouthpiece of the struggle of various classes and parties. In "Pretty Friends", it tells that in the 1980s, Duroy, a junior officer of the French colonial army in Algeria, retired from the army. He came from the civilian class and chose to come to Paris. He was introduced by a former comrade to a newspaper and worked as a reporter. Work, but he does not rely on solid writing skills.
The young man who returned from the army is high-spirited and handsome. Although he works in a newspaper, he has no ink on his chest, but he uses his beautiful appearance to please women. The heroine Madeleine publishes articles, makes contacts with political dignitaries, and embarks on the road to prosperity. And his ambitions don't stop there. They are greedy and shameless, and sinister and cruel. He kidnapped the daughter of the boss of the newspaper, forced the boss to marry him, and became the editor-in-chief of the newspaper. more targeted politics. In
"Pretty Friends", newspapers are tools manipulated in the hands of chaebols and politicians. As reporters or editors, they don't care about using pen and paper in their hands to expose problems and raise people's awareness. Instead, they use them as tools for themselves. One of the fundamental laws of capitalist society is the hooliganism and the pursuit of profit, and this work is just the exposure and satire of the social reality and the ugly face of the upper class. Maupassant not only criticized the souls of people like "Durois" Despicable and dirty, it more deeply reflects the darkness and ugliness of French political life in the 19th century, exposing the depravity of the bourgeoisie and the filth of the press.
