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Richard Jewell, a film directed by America’s legendary actor and film director Clint Eastwood talks about how media works in the U.S. Jewell is an American security guard who saves thousands of people from the bomb in 1996 Olympics. An awards-season politics, that one can understand why the film studio behind Richard Jewell, portrayed and deflect attention away? And does Richard Jewell drama directed by the legend Clint Eastwood makes hidden, larger implications at the politics of the U.S.? This cinematic work actually tells the hidden truth of how mainstream media and national law enforcement work in America.
Eastwood’s version of Jewell’s story shows how the guard in the U.S. is naïve and kind of twisted, in a certain obsessive way. How the law-enforcement, after years of many disappointments makes a brilliant success with Jewell. One man shines in a critical moment—the moment that came after years and years of professional training. What kind of idiosyncrasy and exceptionalism shadows his achievement? This is a political fable polished so greatly and carefully in order to reflect on any what so ever, more or less prejudice that any of us, outside of America can have here. Wrongly suspected by the F.B.I. of having planted the bomb, he struggles through the public. Eastwood here is treating what has happened to Jewell as a national example of how the mainstream media works in the U.S. in general. This hypocritically selective moralistic machine does not deny that the F.B.I makes mistakes. In his case a bloody huge one! But there is a little wonder about how Eastwood’s treatment of the Bureau is designed in order to comply with Trump’s demonization of the FBI, which fights against him personally. I mean really? Who works with who here? Richard Jewell functions to work as the U.S. mythology pointer about the system, confusing the audience with the story. For instance, it tells one specific lie about a reporter trading sexual favors, and this to be further used to tell a bigger truth or a big lie, I am not sure: the media and the government work together as one. Sounds very logical, perhaps in this case too logical.
