真相急先锋

「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.」

整整大半年，凯特女王《卡罗尔》的强势表现导致这部《真相》鲜有人问津，虽说女王＋罗伯特雷德福的演员阵容给演技上了双保险，然而一部电影并不是只要主演够强悍就ok，跟刚刚获得奥斯卡最佳影片的同题材电影《聚焦》相比，合理性、紧凑性和节奏感还是差了一些。《聚焦》并没有绝对的主角，是一部群像电影，影片朴实低调不炫技，但是那种暗涌的力量还是让人随时想为新闻事业献身。而《真相》凯特是绝对主角，塑造的Mary正是本片改编原著的作者，这就带来了一个问题，Mary的观点是否客观？因为本片一直在表达它（她）的“客观”，整个观影过程我一直在思考这个问题，而在我看来CBS简直狗咬狗一嘴毛。节奏方面，前二十分钟有点浮，而后渐入佳境。演技方面，前二十分钟也是浮，除了凯特其他人也没有太多发挥的余地，而后巡视组对质戏的慌张、坚强、隐忍、爆发演技好到爆炸，跟丹的几次情绪变化，如父女般的情感流露极为自然，凯特的嘴角和发丝都是戏。两片导演都身兼编剧、导演二职，聚焦为原创剧本，真相为改编剧本且导演首执导筒，高下可见。

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！