Good Night & Good Luck (Movie Review)
Although my concept of mass media producer was not broken by the movie "Good Night & Good Luck", I was deeply impressed by some certain scenes; although they are just several words or even no words, the power of the pressure of mass media producer from the movie deepened my respect for them...
The first strong impact for me is the sentence the reporter said everytime at the end of the news report, "Good Night and Good Luck!" Although it is such simple words, they overwhemingly had a strong impact on me. I have seen news report so many times, no matter in China or in US. However, what I have been seeing from the eyes of those reporters is nothing but professional, which is a good thing by the way. But this is the first time I saw such an encourageous eyesight which was far away beyond the eyesight of professional. After all, I can understand that he said so many critical jusgements and anouncements, and not one time. Of course, it needs tons of courages to do that in front of the lense, but the way that he showed his stubborn surprised me. Basically, most reporters are following what others are saying of the news, but he didn't. He espressed his own unique idea freely to the public, breaking the traditional way of reporting news, which is a big process of the mass media industry. I can say that, the reason that the United States of America has so much freedom for people's expressions of ideas and opinions is all based on those dedicated mass media producers like Edward.
The second scene that surprised me is that one of the reporter commited suicide because of the drawbacks of his career. I am not sure, but I do want to say that it's kind of satire that he killed himself because of what newspaper said about his report. As the same mass media working staff, but the only different means of mass media; one is newspaper and the other is television. One department could kill the other department. I can figure out nothing except the strong impact of mass media on people. At the same time, I also feel that the working staff who want to survive in this field must have incredibly strong forbearance and resistance. Without these competency, it seems getting out of the way is just the time problem: sooner or later.
I know the difficulties of working for mass media, and the movie did deepen this thought and I also hope every staff working in this field can get to their goals like Edward. Finally, to all the working staff, including my mass media professor, "Good night, and good luck!"
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