Tom McCarthy There is a very clever author who has managed to attract an audience to a difficult genre: thrillers about newspapers. He won an original screenplay oscar For the limelightmade in 2015, was an interesting film about how Boston Globe exposed a cover-up involving a shunned priest. his new abc series Alaska Deli centers on a hot New York reporter (Hilary Swank) who is Expelled for covering up crime in Anchorage,
McCarthy is skilled at avoiding one big trap of the genre: Newsmen are not star material (neither are Woodward and Bernstein). Most of their work is spent in heavy processes.
These problems are clearly evident in the new film. He saidwhich is struggling to find an audience, Universal was courageous in funding a film that, to a fault, provided the most meticulous and factually honest account of a newspaper investigation. Also, Tom McCarthy is needed the most.
He said tells the story of the tireless efforts of two journalists, Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey (played by Zoe Kazan and Carey Mulligan), to take down Harvey Weinstein For his systematic pattern of sexual abuse.
their long and costly mission new York Times — a remarkable commitment that helped fuel the #MeToo movement.
Most reviews of the film range from positive to ecstatic, reflecting attitudes towards the movement as well as the film itself. like the same many times‘ own reviewer admits, ‘fans of all the president’s men Might wish for something zingier—the tang of the plot or even a shaded parking garage.
really, He said A key element of the play is not only the lack of risk, but also the sheer lack of it. Weinstein makes no appearance in the film (the audience briefly sees his back and hears his voice). At one screening, two young moviegoers asked me, “Who is this man, and why did he cause so much fear?”
I understand the reasons for the decision: The criminal is in prison for life, and the filmmakers (Maria Schrader directed the film) didn’t want to honor her presence. At the same time, generations of moviegoers can imagine his danger.
Today no one wants to accept him even after knowing him for fear of allegations of collusion. Even Quentin Tarantino, who made nine movies with her including pulp Fiction, goes to any extent to avoid his name. “I should know,” he declared.
But is it possible to make a thriller without heavy-handedness, no matter how disturbing its presence may have been?
And it was troubling. At his peak, Weinstein lived a perverse fever dream: The great and famous courted him, glittering parties celebrated him, beautiful people surrounded him.
Yet his hunger for power was matched by his hunger for danger: his big movies always came crashing down. Every big relationship, like her get-rich deal with Disney, seemed to be teetering on the edge of disaster—usually because of reckless overspending. Always surrounded by sexy people, apparently sex was also about danger, not play.
He said tracks Weinstein’s self-destruction – and the destruction of others – carefully, even diligently – as it examines the unwilling victims as well as the horrified spectators. Weinstein cleverly concealed the secrets of his dishonest acts and crimes.
Tom McCarthy may someday decide to make a thriller about a nightmare figure like Weinstein. On the other hand, he may decide to hand over her dark past. One we all hope he never lives again.