真相，truth！多么令人熱血沸騰的一個詞。所有的新聞工作者不就是為了真相而工作嗎。我想所有從事新聞的人在接受職業(yè)教育的第一堂課應該就是要無論如何找到真相吧。但是大千世界，利益驅使的社會，真相就算是找到了，你確定你看到聽到的就是真相嗎，too young,too simple! 現(xiàn)在的社會機制里面，所有的真相大部分被掩埋，你看到的不過吃處理過的真相，也有可能是你認為的真相。
       我們要的是事實！真是別再瞎扯淡了，真相已如西風飄，對于所有的社會問題，所有的過去和歷史，我們要的是事實和經過，而不是某些人口中真相，誰要是再更我說真相是這樣的或那樣的，我是真想一口濃痰啐到他的臉上。
       Mary Mapes一個人無力抵抗那么多男人的群攻，這更是來自于她無力抵抗她父親的虐待。和Rather的深厚情誼無法言表，對于事實的挖掘不遺余力，但是面對布什總統(tǒng)的強大后盾團，弱女子怎能經受得起輪番的質問呢。Rather雖有對于職業(yè)精神的高度守護，但是面對那么多的忠實觀眾，以及對于Mary Mapes的信任，他就像一個已無力再戰(zhàn)的老將，緩緩落下大幕。
       當所有人都在追尋真相的時候，一個完整的事實，又是何其的珍貴啊！

這部電影對于大多數(shù)人來說，注定沒有《聚焦》看得過癮。兩部電影相似之處很多，都是新聞記者對抗強權，揭露真相，維護正義的故事。不同的是，真相沒有獲得真相，聚焦最后獲得聚焦。

兩種不同的結果注定電影帶給觀眾的感受會不同。很大的不同！?。?br>
《聚焦》讓我們看到的是，正義得到了伸張，罪惡得到了審判，虛偽丑陋的面皮被撕破，不容置疑的宗教強權被普通人物扳倒。這樣的故事架構本身就充滿吸引力。更何況開頭明明白白寫著真實事件改編。相信每個人看到最后，胸膛里都會被強烈的正義感充溢著，并且這種正義感帶給人極大的歡愉享受。

看《真相》的時候，我以為會是一樣的故事，我是說真相得到揭露的故事。所以當調查很快進行完，新聞播出的時候，我還感覺奇怪，怎么就成功了呢。我以為它會和聚焦一樣，以最后的成功為結局?？墒撬鼪]有，它給我們講述的是不一樣的故事。某種程度上，對我來講，它所表達出來的東西更多更豐富。

＂從現(xiàn)在開始，在某個地方某些人會想做一個我們是怎樣做出這個新聞的新聞。＂

一語成讖，他們原本是懷著滿滿的責任感與正義感，為著社會的正義，去調查別人的真相，形成一個具有震撼力有價值的新聞?？墒亲詈髤s反了過來，他們成了被調查人，他們成了要被了解的另一個真相。這個新聞的如何如何的錯誤成了又一個更具大眾喜聞樂見性的新聞。他們原本是在揭露丑聞，結果他們自己變成了丑聞，變成了＂拉瑟門＂。

如果說，對待聚焦小組的成員我們的態(tài)度應該是贊賞敬佩，那么，對待深陷＂拉瑟門＂并因此斷送了職業(yè)前途的那些人呢？

人們總是會被那些成功的英雄和領袖所感動，但對于失敗者我們的情感會復雜的多。他們雖然并沒有揭露出他們所要追求的真相，但驅動他們行為的是身為媒體人的責任感，正義感，以及為了追求真相甘冒風險的勇氣。從電影所展現(xiàn)的來看，他們是合格的新聞工作者。

我很疑惑導演為什么會選擇這個故事，展現(xiàn)一群揭露真相失敗的新聞工作者的故事，他們遠沒有聚焦里的人物吸引人。但這也是我敬佩導演的地方。雖然這件事的真相也許永遠不能達到，但這些人值得我們敬佩。他們具備新聞工作者最可貴最難得的品質：勇氣。

真相是多么的難以企及，他們千辛萬苦尋找著關乎國家社會的真相，最后卻漏洞百出。而他們自己的微不足道的真相卻又被各種誤解偏見所掩蓋。

「I know what it's like to be bullied. To feel like they're too strong, and you're small and powerless. But you're not. And doing this will show them that.」


「Asking questions, that's important. Some people are gonna say it doesn't matter. One side or the other's always gonna say you're being partisan. But you stop asking questions, that's when the people lose. Now, that may sound hokey, but I believe it.」


「Thirty minutes from now, someone somewhere is gonna be doing a story about this guy, doing a story about us.」


「We seek the truth. that's what we do. You're supposed to put yourself out, seek the truth and take what comes from it.」


「You're supposed to question everything. That's your job. We're supposed to question everything, and, what, you won't even question this?」


「Daddy? Daddy, please stop.」


「Why didn't you ask me? Because God knows everybody else did when the shit hit the fan. Why didn't you?
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Ask you what?
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Why didn't you ask me if the documents were real?
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Because I knew I didn't need to.」


「F.E.A Fuck 'em all.」


「Do you know what it would take to fake these memos?
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Mary...
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No, this is important. It would require the forger to have an in-depth knowledge of the 1971 Air Force manual, including rules and regulations and abbreviations. He would have to know Bush's official record front to back to make sure none of the memos conflicted with it. He would have to know all the players in the Texas Air National Guard at the time. Not just their names, but their attitudes, their opinions, including how they related to one another. He would have to know Colonel Killian kept personal memos like this for himself in the first place. He would have to know how Killian felt at the time particularly about his superiors and then First Lieutenant Bush. He would have to know or learn all of this in order to fool us as you assume he did. Now, do you really think that a man who takes this kind of time and precision then goes and types these up on the Microsoft Word? Our story was about whether Bush fulfilled his service. Nobody wants to talk about that. They wanna talk about fonts and forgeries and conspiracy theories. Because that's what people do these days if they don't like a story. They point and scream. They question your politics, your objectivity. Hell, your basic humanity. And they hope to God the truth gets lost in the scrum. And when it is finally over and they have kicked and shouted so loud. We can't even remember what the point was.
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But you didn't prove it. You didn't prove Ben Barnes got the president into the Guard. You didn't prove the memos are real. The burden of proof is on you.
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By that standard, the Times would never have run the Pentagon Papers. The Post wouldn't have listened to Deep Throat.
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Ben Barnes is hardly Deep Throat.
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Ben Barnes has confessed to abusing his power to keep some of the richest, and most privileged sons of Texas from getting their asses blown off in Vietnam.
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Mrs. Mapes. Don't you think it's possible, just possible that some of those fine, young privileged men, as you call them got into the National Guard on their own merit?
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No, sir. No, I do not.」


「Hey, Mary. I believe you.」


「To my fellow journalists in place where reporting the turth means risking all. And to each of you... courage.」