I watched ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN last night for obvious reasons, and two things happened. One, I realized that this movie is nearly incomprehensible now because it's basically a letter from the 1970s to itself, with all necessary historical context removed. (1/2)
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I've watched it a 1000 times, and I only slowly understand more each time. The point abt female harassment is well made. But I have to say, I love how the film manages to create insane suspense* through just two dudes talking to other people. *Probably only for political nerds.
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It's definitely suspenseful, though sometimes it felt like they added random urgency -- Carl is running for no reason! -- and threw in too many scenes of men snarking in the newsroom about nothing.
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Yo but the unintentional ASMR from all the typewriters in the newsroom scenes is great
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And from the pencil-on-paper scenes
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I saw this at the Prince Charles Cinema in London as part of a triple bill with Klute and The Parallax View. That is such a superb description of what goes on. It's such a fine film.
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I didn't feel it held up as well as The Parallax View. But I do love that 1970s texture of crosstalk dialogue.
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How did people find each other back then?!?
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In the film they find people by asking women in the office to do it, pushing them to go on creepy dates to pump dudes for info -- that's how they get the list of committee members
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The strength of the sense memory associated with rotary phones—the force against the arcing finger as the number was selected, the sound of the dial whirring back into place, the gleam of the plastic as numbers flickered through the holes—can not be underestimated.
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I have a similar memory of the sounds of a modem dialing into a BBS
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