A lesson about journalism

Rating: 7/10 (15 August 2007)

"All The President's Men" is an interesting movie based on a true story, in this case the Watergate political scandal, which took place between 1972 and 1974. Back then Richard Nixon was the President of the United States of America.
This movie focuses mostly on the journalism's perspective about the Watergate scandal. It has nothing to do with "The Insider", but somehow it closely resembles "The Insider".
"All The President's Men" can teach us many things about what it's like to be a journalist. "The Insider" also teaches us this kind of thing.
The story is real and the movie is slow (it requires patience), but reasonably made: a good combination of real facts, journalism, suspense, thriller, tension, darkness, images from television, machinery, old music and some humorous moments.
The actors are great and some of them are legends, such as Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford and Jack Warden.
Dustin Hoffman plays the role of Carl Bernstein and Robert Redford plays Bob Woodward, the two main characters of the movie. They both steal the show as the two journalists of the Washington Post. They are both ambitious and a good example because they take their job very seriously. That is something very needed for a job like that.
Jack Warden is great too, but his character (Harry M. Rosenfeld) appears few times.
Deep Throat is a funny, complex, mad and enigmatic character. No wonder, with a nickname like that... and he's very well played by the actor.
The director Alan J. Pakula did a good job with this film.
This motion picture has one of the most peculiar endings ever created: writing machines that continually write very quickly and without stopping. The way how they did this is incredible!
Movies about journalism may not be the most exciting thing to watch, but they are interesting and, with an open mind and if given a chance, it's easy to appreciate them. They also give good perspectives about the stories which they are based. For those who like this kind of movies and this one in particular, I recommend "The Insider" as well.