Movie Review: The Post (Rating: 4/5)
Directed by Steven Spielberg and played by award-winning cast including Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep , the film is about how the Washington Post has obtained the confidential study by the US government on the Vietnam War, and the struggle of whether or not to publish the information. The story itself is nothing out of the box since it is based on a pretty famous event in US history (i.e.: Pentagon Papers ), but the screenplay or the script is what makes this movie truly shines. First of all, the script moves the story slowly, so that without any knowledge of the related events in history, you can still fully understand the situation in that period of time, such as the frustration of the US government on fighting the Vietnam War, and the management issues of the Washington Post on its own survival. Next, the script showed us the tangling relationships between the US administration personnel (including the First Family) and the media owners in those days, as well as more ...