Cine TV Contest #38 - Favorite Political Movie or Television Show - All the President’s Men

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I think that political films are not as exciting as action or horror films, but they are very important as they convey to us a paving picture of the reality we were living in or about the history that we should study, so this film is one of those films that conveyed to us a detailed picture About an event that changed the course of an important presidential history.

The events of “All the President’s Men” (138 min) are based on an investigative book written by journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.

The film highlights the "Watergate scandal", which led to the resignation of Richard Nixon from the presidency of the United States of America.

In many scenes, the film focuses on both main characters in real conferences for the "Washington Post", and in real newsroom groups that were created according to the real dimensions of these offices and rooms, especially when this story was combined with the presence of Robert Redford, who appeared in the starring role of Woodward, He bought the initial rights to the book.

The film accurately shows the processes used by investigative reporters to access their information in the course of the investigation, the ways to verify it by evasion, and the situations they were exposed to from threats and personal harassment, at a time when freedom of the press was less than it is now in the United States of America.

The viewer who is not specialized in the field of journalism experiences, by watching this film, the huge amount of personal doubt that the investigative journalist exercises about any information he can receive from different sources, and the pressure he is exposed to if the target party in the investigative investigation tries to discredit the journalist, especially his credibility. , which is considered the most prominent possession in the field of his profession.

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The story of the movie

The subject of the American film, produced in 1976, relates to the political scandal known as (Watergate), one of the largest political scandals in the history of the United States. To his party (the Republican Party) about the election campaign to renew his position for a second presidential term.

This scandal ended with his resignation from his position as President of the United States and being considered guilty until his Vice President (Gerald Ford) took office and issued an amnesty for the violations committed by President Nixon.

This resounding political issue published its story in public by two journalists working in it, the heroes of the movie (All the President's Men), the two characters who were embodied by the brilliant actors (Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford) who They performed a smooth and highly spontaneous dramatic performance, adding to their track record a successful drama with distinction that won many international awards.

After a quick and brief presentation at the beginning of the film of the storming of (the Democratic Party headquarters) at night by a specialized team, by chance, he is under arrest by the police, and after the news reaches the editor-in-chief in the morning in the Washington Post newspaper.

The director takes the initiative to assign journalist "Bob Woodward" (Robert Redford) to investigate this exciting event that no one could have imagined would end with the resignation of the country's president in a page that history will never turn over. From the suspicion and suspicion surrounding it, and that the accused of storming the party’s headquarters in the (Watergate) residential complex are carefully in court from a certain side, which may be the intelligence service itself, and this was the entrance to galvanize its energy and focus its attention on the case.

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