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.