真相急先锋

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。

这个场景印象深刻

美国总统竞选迫在眉睫，新闻栏目制片人玛丽了解到竞选连任总统的布什履历存在严重问题，由此展开调查和报道而引发的一系列故事。

很少看新闻题材类的电影，最近看的一部好像还是很久以前由《西雅图不眠夜》的女主主演的，剧中饰演一位为了追查真相和变态杀手斗智斗勇的女记者，具体电影名字早已忘记，只记得女主的执着和杀手的变态。

真相这部电影看得很纠结。女主演技真的很赞，我很佩服女主玛丽对待新闻的热情和自我坚持，热爱这种情绪可不是每个人都会有的。但却又不得不承认正是因为玛丽太过坚持自我，才会葬送掉自己和整个团队的前程。她固执地认为人们的焦点出现了偏差，人们更应该关注事件本身，这没错，可她却忽略了求证原本就是事件的一部分，所以和事件本身同样重要。作为制片团队和记者，不能受到事件影响力大小的诱惑，而忘了核实所谓的真相，或者忽略原本显而易见的问题。消息的第一手传达固然重要，消息的准确性却更为重要。这才是新闻的根本所在，准确。

当一位审查官问玛丽，假如有一位身世显赫的官二代却是完全靠自己的实力进的飞行队，难道没有一点可能吗？玛丽沉默了很久，我想她应该意识到自己输在哪里了。将强烈的个人意识和主观色彩带到工作中，是所有职业都忌讳的，更何况是新闻。哪怕还有万分之一未能得到认证，都不能被播报。这应该是每个新闻人的职业操守才对。

看到玛丽她们调侃自己的第一手新闻刚播出时就有其他电视台播报她们电视台播报了一手新闻这件事，想起了刘同在《你的孤独虽败犹荣》里写自己做娱记时的变化过程，一开始总是第一个到达会场，准备问题，希望拿到和别人不一样的信息，后来发现即使自己不去也会有同行认真记录，所以只要借笔记就好，最后发现连笔记都不用借，因为同行一定会做出这期节目，而你只需收集她们的节目，重新编辑一下即可。这样的变化让我有种莫名的无奈。

看着国内常常有轰动一时吸人眼球的“热点新闻”，过后却总会出现澄清前面是假新闻的报道出现，真的有种无力感。没有实证就没有发言权，那么这些铺天盖地的报道和热点又是怎么出现的呢？真的只是信息发布的门坎太低了吗？

记不清是龙应台还是谁说过，很多作家在用词造句方面越来越随意，有时甚至是相反意义的词语被用在了对立的语境中，这种状况的出现归根究底是不求甚解和不负责任的表现。自那以后，再遇上对含义模棱两可的字词，总会先去查证，我害怕成为那个不负责任，误导他人的人。

They point and scream. They question your politics, your objectivity, 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.

「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.」