Steven Spielberg's 'The Post' aimed at people 'starving for the truth'
LOS ANGELES: Steven Spielberg's new film The Post might be set in 1971 yet its topic about press opportunity is about today.
Spielberg raced to get the motion picture recorded and discharged inside a year.
It is about the fight by daily papers to distribute the spilled Pentagon Papers enumerating the US government's deceptive depiction of the Vietnam War.
"I recently felt that there was an earnestness to reflect 1971 and 2017 in light of the fact that they were terrifyingly comparative," the Oscar-winning executive told a Hollywood crowd after a screening of the film on Monday.
"Our target group are the general population who have spent the last 13, 14 months thirsting and starving for reality," Spielberg said. "They are out there, and they require some uplifting news."
Featuring Meryl Streep as the late Washington Post distributer Katharine Graham and Tom Hanks as late editorial manager Ben Bradlee, The Post was named on Monday the best film of 2017 by the National Board of Review — a New York-based 100-year-old gathering of scholastics, movie producers, and experts.
Streep was named best on-screen character and Hanks was voted best performing artist, setting the film up as an early leader for the Oscars.
Spielberg — a conspicuous Hollywood Democrat — did not specify US President Donald Trump in his comments.
Be that as it may, The Post touches base in motion picture theaters in December when the media has been under rehashed assaults by Trump since his decision in November 2016.
Trump has called the press "the foe of the American individuals." He utilizes the expression "counterfeit news" to give occasion to feel qualms about news reports incredulous of his organization, frequently without giving confirmation to help his case.
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in August the Trump organization was thinking about expecting writers to uncover their sources in the midst of Trump's push to stop breaks to the press.
The film sensationalizes the choices by the New York Times and the Washington Post to distribute the best mystery Pentagon Papers about the Vietnam War notwithstanding directives by the Nixon organization in a fight that went to the US Supreme Court.
Spielberg said that before making the film, he was "truly discouraged about what was occurring on the planet and the nation".
In the wake of getting the content in February, "all of a sudden my whole point of view toward the future lit up overnight", he said.
The Post was shot in June and opens in US motion picture theaters on December 22.
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