16 December 2017: Steven Spielberg’s new film “The Post” isn’t only a 1971 story of press opportunity or the place of ladies in the work environment.
It offers key conversation starters about the United States today, star Tom Hanks says.
“I think it’s a very good patriotic movie about ‘what is the state of America?’,” Hanks told Reuters at the world premiere in Washington D.C. on Thursday night.
“This is about a women’s place and equality in the workplace … It is definitely about the legacy of the Vietnam War and what 40 years of policy did to the United States of America. And it’s also about the journalistic integrity of people who view it as not their job, but their responsibility to go out and get the truth,” Hanks added.
Featuring Hanks as Washington Post manager Ben Bradlee and Meryl Streep as Washington Post distributer Katharine Graham, “The Post” performs the fight by daily papers in 1971 to distribute the spilled Pentagon Papers enumerating the U.S. government’s deceptive depiction of the Vietnam War.
Spielberg has said he raced to film and discharge the motion picture inside a year on the grounds that the parallels in the vicinity of 1971 and 2017 were “terrifyingly similar.”
The motion picture, opening in U.S. film theaters on Dec. 22, touches base when the media has been under assault by U.S. President Donald Trump since his race in November 2016.
On Thursday, Spielberg said the subject of press flexibility goes past any single government.
“Everybody goes through a tug of war with the media, with the press. Obama went through it. Bush goes through it, Clinton went through it. The current administration is going through it,” he said.
“The Post” was nominated this week for six Golden Globes and is seen as a front runner for Oscar nominations when they are announced in January.