{"id":6846,"date":"2018-01-19T15:12:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T23:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=6846"},"modified":"2018-01-19T16:54:13","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T00:54:13","slug":"review-the-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/review-the-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: \u201cThe Post\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Zo<\/span>\u00eb<\/span> Strickland | Editor-in-Chief<\/span><\/p>\n

Before going to see the film, I had heard relatively nothing about \u201cThe Post\u201d or the Pentagon Papers scandal that it follows. Regardless, the film was an engaging and empowering political thriller that boasted impeccable acting. <\/span><\/p>\n

The film follows the publisher and executive editor of The Washington Post <\/span>\u2014 <\/span>Katherine Graham, played by Meryl Streep, and Ben Bradlee, played by Tom Hanks <\/span>\u2014<\/span> as they try and play catch-up with The New York Times in an effort to expose Vietnam era U.S. war secrets. Before The Washington Post can obtain enough evidence to write their own articles about the secrets, President Nixon tries to shut The New York Times\u2019s articles down. <\/span><\/p>\n

The release of this film couldn\u2019t have come at a better time; \u201cThe Post\u201d felt like an homage to the free press. The movie pits The Washington Post and The New York Times against each other, emphasizing The Washington Post\u2019s involvement and stifling The New York Times\u2019s. Though this made for a more intense and dramatic storyline, it felt unjust. I loved the sense of journalistic fervor presented throughout the storyline.<\/span><\/p>\n

For the greater part of this film, I was ready for Spielberg to blow it with Graham\u2019s character. True story or not, I almost resigned myself to the fact that Streep\u2019s character would be lessened to the part of frail, flighty woman and that her male counterparts would have to intervene to save the paper. However, instead I witnessed an incredibly moving comeback. Streep could play publishers for the rest of her career and I would be content; her depiction of Graham was incredibly moving.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hanks was extraordinary in his role as well; his character is driven and unrelenting.<\/span><\/p>\n

One of my favorite things in \u201cThe Post\u201d was the underlying sense of female empowerment. It would\u2019ve been easy to make Graham the only speaking female role. However, the movie is powdered with minor female characters that emphasize Graham as a role model to women.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Post\u201d was fantastic. It isn\u2019t the type of movie that will keep you thinking about it for days after you see it. That being said, it\u2019s memorable, it\u2019s engaging and the acting is incredible. <\/span><\/p>\n

Contact the author at journaleditor@wou.edu<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Zo\u00eb Strickland | Editor-in-Chief Before going to see the film, I had heard relatively nothing about \u201cThe Post\u201d or the Pentagon Papers scandal that it follows. Regardless, the film was an engaging and empowering political thriller that boasted impeccable acting. The film follows the publisher and executive editor of The Washington Post \u2014 Katherine Graham, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1030,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1030"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}