News of the World 4K 2020 Ultra HD 2160p

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1870 Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels from city to city, sharing news from around the world, as well as stories of presidents and queens, great battles and devastating disasters.

On the plains of Texas, his path intersects with ten-year-old Joanna, who was abducted by the Kiowa tribe and raised in the traditions of an Indian commune for the past six years. Kidd agrees to take the girl to the home of her uncle and aunt, the only surviving relatives. Traversing hundreds of miles through harsh wilderness, these two will face both natural disasters and human brutality in search of a place to call their home.

Review 4K Movie

Just over half a century ago, the salvation of Hollywood cinema from the oppressive atmosphere of self-censorship came from France. The French la Nouvelle Vague created a powerful impetus for the birth of the American the New Wave. Martin Scorsese, Sam Peckinpah, Robert Altman, Alan Pakula, Sidney Lumet, Francis Ford Coppola and Sidney Pollack - the world would hardly have known their names without the works of Godard, Chabrol, Truffaut, Rene, Melville.

Today, to great sadness and sorrow, we see in Hollywood a picture similar to the 50s of the 20th century, with the only difference that instead of the conservative Hayes Code of Ethics, modern directors, screenwriters, producers and film studios use the 'Code of Morality of the Builder of Communism' as a censorship tool '. However, new hope shines on the horizon - again, as in the 60s, the destroyers of cinema censorship are sailing to the shores of the United States from the other side of the Atlantic: this time they set sail from the coast of Foggy Albion. Matthew Vaughn, Edgar Wright, Guy Ritchie and Paul Greengrass are an excellent quartet of British directors. The film of the latter will be discussed here.

"News from all over the world" is not just another good Western - it is a countercultural manifesto; a challenge to the distraught fighters for the imposition of socialist legality. The last time, in my memory, an equally strong kick to the emerging totalitarian left culture was given 15 years ago by Edward Zwick, when he shot 'Blood Diamond', where the main character is a white Rhodesian, proud of his colonial origin, who fought for South Africa during apartheid times and speaks in racist slang, saves a black slave from his fellow tribesmen.

In his new painting, Greengrass, like Zwick once, violated every conceivable and inconceivable 'norms of decency'. Tom Hanks plays a Confederate veteran who fought for Texas during the Civil War; and not just a Confederate veteran, but a retired officer proud of his service for the benefit of the Confederation. However, the fact that Greengrass does not show the main hero of his film as a veteran northerner, or at least a repentant southerner, is not so bad; he, a kind of scoundrel, shows all southerners, not as stereotypical racist Rednecks, but as ordinary people, among whom there are scoundrels, and 'good Samaritans', and cowards, and brave, and clever, and fools. Moreover, the film does not touch upon the theme of interracial relations at all (with the exception of a single three-second episode at the very beginning of the film, which shows the impersonal corpse of a lynched black man), despite the fact that the film is set in Texas just 5 years after the end of the Civil War. ... What have the Yankee soldiers and officers (northerners, tobish) shown in the film as rather dubious characters who support the occupation regime in the South of the United States and oppress, in general, normal southerners.

Then, in view of the fact that the plot of the picture is closely connected with the Indians, Greengrass again strikes a blow to the set soreness of political correctness. No terrible oppression of the Indians, not to mention the genocide invented by the leftists, is not shown in the film. In truth, the Indians themselves are practically absent from the frame (they appear a few seconds closer to the end of the film), and from the conversations of the characters and the general narrative it is easy to conclude that these are bloodthirsty aggressive savages, and not 'peaceful and friendly tribes, which are cynically cut out by whites colonialists'.

Taken together, I can say that the film is definitely worth watching and, even, reviewing. Excellent camera work, wonderful work of make-up and costume designers and, of course, amazing acting performance of Tom Hanks. The only concern is that the progressive leftist public may ostracize the director and screenwriter of a film (the notorious cancel culture). Let's wish the creators of this masterpiece good luck!