Scritto da Mrs De Fanis, Mrs Marchei, Mrs Vero
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lunedì 19 febbraio 2018 |
58,200 American and 1 million dead Vietnamese soldiers, and 2 million dead Vietnamese civilians; these were the numbers crunched at the end of the day for an 11 years' pointless conflict that as many as four political administrations in a row just wouldn't come clean about because that would mean taking on responsibility for it and messing up their reputation; and 7,000 were the pages of the Pentagon Papers report uncovering the truth that first the New York Times and then the Washington Post got hold of and sent for print in defiance of the State system. These are the 1971 events that compelling political thriller The Post puts in the fish bowl, sparking issues that call up our present day " fake news' " world: freedom of the press, ethics of journalism, relationship between media and power, while warning us that we have a right to be informed and a duty to watch over our governments' doings lest we lose that freedom many in the past gave up their lives for.
But this movie is about women's world, too, women and journalists that made the difference between flaunting beliefs and confronting prison and bankruptcy for them: Katharine Graham, the inexperienced widow suddenly knocked away from household matters into the traditionally male chauvinist world of a newspaper as its head and publisher stands up for both the principles of freedom of speech and emancipation, while proving that wars can also be fought with words and that words do shake the world: "The news is the first rough draft of history".
So let's watch history in the making with this movie! on Thursday 22nd at 02:30 p.m. Ticket's only five euros for Capriotti school.
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