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"More than Endless", you can book "Chinese Film of the Year"

"Instead of lingering, it is better to burn calmly."

This is a sentence in the movie "More than Ending", from Zhang Bo's mouth and implemented by Han Dong.

This film, starring Bai Ke and Zhang Songwen, with journalists as the core characters, recently opened a nationwide "advanced point screening" activity.

The first round of word-of-mouth can be called rave reviews.

As a netizen said, although the main creative team had to make trade-offs in some aspects because of the subject matter, the final product was still the quality of the "Chinese Film of the Year" that could be reserved.

The story of "More Than Ending" is set in 2003 and 2004.

At that time, the media industry was still the world of print media.

Han Dong, played by Bai Ke, although he is a high school graduate, he writes good articles. In pursuit of journalistic ideals, he left his hometown and went to Beijing to become a journalist.

After being ridiculed for his job search, Han Dong was not discouraged and seized every opportunity to recommend himself. Because of an article published on a forum in the past, he was added by the green eyes of senior newspaper reporter Huang Jiang (played by Zhang Songwen) and got the opportunity to intern at the newspaper.

But becoming a journalist is just the beginning, how to be a journalist is the key.

Throughout the entire film of "More Than Ending", there are actually three problems.

Question 1: What is a journalist?

In the film, after Han Dong and several interns who graduated from prestigious schools entered the newspaper, Huang Jiang also asked them this question.

An intern's answer is "uncrowned king."

In the age of print media, the impact that a deep and powerful press release can have is immeasurable. The pen in the reporter's hand can sometimes even "decide life and death."

But because of this, journalists need to have a strong sense of responsibility and morality. If you just enjoy the privilege of being the first to know the truth, and the influence of swaying public opinion, you may become a "comatose king".

Question 2: What makes a good journalist?

When several interns first joined the newspaper, Huang Jiang took a small test. He asked an intern to run inside the newspaper, and the boy ran around the office without asking why.

Huang Jiang used him as an example to tell Han Dong that you can't be too obedient as a reporter.

If you do not blindly follow, you will have your own discernment and angle of looking at things.

And this is very specific in Han Dong's body.

At the job fair, when others spread resumes, he brought bound copies of his articles. When asked about his academic qualifications, he did not tell the reason for dropping out of school, but stressed that it should be based on personal ability.

In the subsequent "hepatitis B test" incident, Han Dong even risked losing his job and insisted on retracting the manuscript. Because what he saw was the group of people behind the incident who were deeply involved in social discrimination. Just because they are carriers, they cannot go to school, are forced to lose their jobs, and even love cannot end. Be looked at with strange eyes from your surroundings, and even driven away.

Only by correcting existing errors can they get out of their predicament.

Question 3: Should journalists be emotional?

Huang Jiang told Han Dong that reporters should be objective, calm and rational.

Because only in this way is a qualified "recorder".

But in this world, without personal experience, you will not really empathize; If you are not in it, how can you experience the pain of "not being able to explain"?

"If you work as a journalist for a long time, it will become a profession."

In the film, Han Dong got the opportunity to stay in the newspaper because of his excellent performance. When he heard the news from the mouth of the Huangjiang River, a colleague patted him on the shoulder and said the words.

The ideal becomes a career because there is no blood impulse to change the world, and the ability to empathize with vulnerable people has been lost. If you can't experience their distress and despair, how can you really want to fight injustice at all costs?

Han Dong empathizes with the discriminated group, not only because it includes his friends, but also because he has had the same experience.

At the job fair, when the staff knew that he only had a junior high school education, the disdainful sneer was tantamount to a slap in the face.

Focusing on such three issues, "More than Endless" uses the mode of comparison to elaborate and discuss.

The contrast between people is Huangjiang and Han Dong.

The comparison between things is the mining disaster and the "hepatitis B test".

Is Huang Jiang a good journalist?

The answer is yes.

Objective and calm, with both journalistic sensitivity and action, and a certain sense of social responsibility.

When he appeared, he was a jacket, a large school bag, his hair was messy, and he was dusty, and he exchanged the interview results with his colleagues without taking a break; When he learned of the mining disaster in Shanxi, he first tried his best to fight for the front page, and then took Han Dong to the place of the incident overnight; During the investigation and interview, Huangjiang can also quickly integrate into the environment, find a breakthrough, and then obtain useful clues.

But his news only exposes and documents what has happened, and does not change anything.

In the later "hepatitis B test" incident, if Han Dong did not insist on retracting the manuscript, then he was just another Huangjiang. Fortunately, he chose a different direction.

That "100 million people's anti-discrimination proposition" eventually became the salvation of countless people.

The audience's affirmation and praise for "More Than Ending" is not only the film's exposure and discussion of real problems, but also because it shoots a sense of realism like a documentary.

Han Dong, who became a "North Drift" away from home, rented a small kitchen. quench your thirst with water from water pipes, nibble bread and cold steamed buns when hungry; Xiaozhu, his girlfriend who accompanied him in Beijing to pursue his dreams, was shown to customers by his boss as a prop and lived in a warehouse full of clothing models. There is so much water leaking from the roof that it has to be connected with a bucket.

In the mining disaster, the general environment of the coal yard, the county hotel, the way the mine owner handled things, and every scene and every link in the black industrial chain of the "blood cow" were so real that they were like watching news filmed in a "special way".

And the Yellow River.

From the beginning of his appearance, the identity of Huangjiang's senior reporter was not questioned in the slightest because of Zhang Songwen's excellent interpretation. In the mining accident interview alone, his meticulous care to make clothes old and dirty, and his sophisticated sensitivity to using the hotel as an entry point, were enough to convince the audience to believe.

This sense of realism from story to characters, from details to the whole, makes the realistic significance of "More than Endless" reach its peak. Whether it's needles for the media industry or discussions about ideals, it can resonate.

Nowadays, traffic is king and chaos is rampant, behind not only the lack of social responsibility, but also the factor of ideal collapse.

Ten years of drinking ice, it is difficult to cool the blood.

However, how many people can remember their original intention in the beating of society?

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