пятница, 31 мая 2019 г.

Michael Manns The Insider - History Redefined :: Movie Film Essays

Michael Manns The Insider - History Redefined1 Growing up, I had always been a gullible child. If someone had told me the sky was falling, I would inevitably look up. As my naivety lead me to be the butt of many jokes, I grew less and less trusting. I versed that if something looks too good to be true, then it probably is. I learned not to buy products from infomercials. I even had to sadly face the reality that the WWF wrestling matches I so faithfully watched each weekend were fake. My eyes had been agonistic open and made to look at the light. But when I looked back down at the world around me, my vision was blurred. I had become cynical. 2 In retrospect, this change was a somewhat positive one. I began questioning everything, taking nothing for granted. I watched movies and television shows with a look of disgust, knowing that the unlikely scenarios portrayed on the screen could never happen in real life. When the Reel American History project came my way, I knew it was the perfect playground for my inquisitive melodic theme and distrustful nature. I thought about how I would be a detective, uncovering the real facts about what happened. Nothing would get by me I imagined myself pickax apart the film, scene by scene, and raking the filmmaker over the coals for daring to manipulate history. 3 After choosing to study The Insider, I sat down to watch it. For close to ternion hours I was riveted by the drama unfolding on the screen. I was completely swept up in the story. As the last scene faded away, I sat silently with my emotions sadness for Jeffrey Wigands losses, an utter hatred for the entire tobacco industry (at that point, synonymous with evil in my mind), and a deep sense of discernment for my new hero, Lowell Bergman. But then a new frame came up on the screen and interrupted my thoughts. I squinted to see what the small print utter Subsequent to the events dramatized here, the tobacco industry in 1998 settled the lawsuits filed against it by Mississippi and 49 other states for $246 billion.

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