After the rise of the media, the traditional media began to fade out of the sight of ordinary people in a declining way, and then the profession of reporters faded out, not that there were no reporters in the era of self-media, but that the reporters who were originally loaded with a halo began to gradually become ordinary people. Once upon a time, we had a lofty reverence for journalists, because journalists themselves represent a kind of public opinion power, which, if used properly, can be of great significance to society, but not all users of public opinion supervision power can act impartially, so the journalist group is declining day by day.
The film recommended to you today is about a group in the era of traditional media, that is, journalists. "Non-stop" is a film that aims at the core of the story at the special group of reporters, Han Dong, a young man who came to Beijing for the first time, broke into the circle of reporters with enthusiasm, in this circle, Han Dong from the original ignorance to the later sophistication, gradually, Han Dong began to shake his original intention as a reporter when facing his own interview, whether to interview for justice, or to express his compassion for the disadvantaged group and interview, Han Dong fell into a dilemma. The film aims to discuss such topics and draw a kind of symbol for them.
"More than Endless" is a feature film, but it is also a very contrived feature film, I don't know when it started, any of our industries must prepare a label for themselves to be labeled before they can represent this industry. It seems that an industry without any label does not attract any attention. The reporter, who used to classify others, also needs to be labeled in this film in order to carry out his work normally. This is a point of confusion.
However, this label is not set for the pursuit of the original intention of the heart, but rather a clumsy imitation like a sense of ritual. All of our standards so far have been set, not based on the history, culture and development of our own country. This has formed a contradiction, it is not important whether the standards that any of our industries rely on are suitable for us, but the important thing is to be in line with international standards. But is the international what is China? Not necessarily.
It's like a southerner who has mastered the catering industry in the north and sets a standard, and in the future, eating can only mean eating rice, and eating noodles cannot be regarded as eating. But in many industries, we treat this set standard as a guest and consider it sacrosanct.
In this film, we have a mythical color for the journalist itself, and under this mythological color, it is easy for the participants to have an illusion, an illusion that they are standing on the moral high ground to judge others. Han Dong has this illusion, and the journalist industry also has this illusion. Han Dong's boss Huang Jiang himself has a definition of reporters, first of all, they are fair and objective. Han Dong did not respect this basic rule, and he believed that his mercy was also a rule that must be followed. But is this really the case?
Journalists are front-line reporters, and since they are reporting, they need to have a minimum of respect for objective facts, and with this as a premise, they can render personal emotional factors. Journalists first need to report facts, and they are objective facts, and then they can give their own opinions on the facts based on personal feelings. If this order is reversed, then there will be no fact in essence. Because at this time, the facts have been influenced by the reporter personally.
And the mediocrity of this film is not in the story, nor in the sense of being lifted high and gently put down, but in a certain sense of ritual that this film adheres to, which is completely unnecessary, every industry has a sense of ritual in every industry, but the sense of ritual is not the logo of this industry. The industry itself needs people who are down-to-earth to maintain the industry, on the contrary, if the industry is excessively bound to a certain sense of ritual, what we will see in the end is just a renaissance of formalism, which will be spurned by anyone, and there will be no special treatment here.
But what "More than Endless" brings to the audience is still the problem of the flood of formalism, and the creator seems to have a deep stereotype against the journalist industry, so he focused all the labels he could think of on Han Dong alone, and worked hard to create such a character, but the real reporter himself will not have such a label, and the character created with the label looks real, but in fact it is just gold. After displaying too much, it makes people feel too fake.
This is a common problem of many domestic films, we don't need perfect characters, and we don't need one person to concentrate all the points that the creator wants to express, one by one, so that the characters are missing, and our works are closer to the truth. However, this expectation may be a luxury.
Because at this stage, we have no focus, only hot spots, no depth, only heat, it seems that any topic can be hyped up as long as it is hyped up, as for what kind of issues are reflected behind this topic, no one cares, but shouldn't reporters care?