I’ve often thought that this type of film is the hardest to do well. Essentially this is a movie about obtaining, organizing, and distributing documents to the American people. Oh and by the way, if you know anything about American history you already know the ending. Would Fight Club or The Usual Suspects have been as entertaining had you known the ending before the film was even written? Making this kind of movie engaging and exciting is very difficult. It’s also a film about a profession which can sometimes be a cinematic pitfall. Frequently movies that are based on journalism romanticize the job to an almost nauseating degree, I didn’t get that feeling from The Post. Nothing seemed overly contrived or self-aggrandizing. In this heated political climate we live in The Post could have very well shoved the merits of trusting journalism down our throats. Spielberg could have asked Tom Hanks to stare directly into the camera and talk about how a president should never actively try to delegitimize the press simply because it does not portray them as wonderful; which is what Nixon did. Instead, The Post just tells the story and a very good story at that.

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