Cold Copy (2023)
Ego trip journalist
21 March 2024
Warning: Spoilers
A totally naive and insecure student adores this TV host / professor.

That sentence alone should disqualify her.

Or be used for a different kind of movie.

Journalism is stories, just like everything else in life.

But most of all, surprise surprise, journalism is a business, it is stories used to sell ads, twisted stories, one-sided stories, tabloid stories, propaganda stories, fantasy stories. Who knew. Cui bono.

In today's woke world, how is that btchy professor even a thing?

And why would I care for an egotistical jealous criminal student with no morals? Cry me a river your 'story' got 'stolen', learn your lesson: read the fine print before you sign something. 'I'm so special' - glad that bubble got burst quickly.

If this is supposed to be a character study it failed. Nothing new to be gained here. Not even truth, whatever that elusive, many-facetted thing may be . Only a shadow of yesteryear's news. That hammam monologue was so Hollywood it hurt.

The ending is not redemptive, it's more cliché and more ego trip and predictable, totally unconvincing and not satisfying. Any second grade editing proofcheck would show that the recording was fake. But who cares, as everything is. That's the message, then. As I said, surprise surprise, yesteryear's news.

The kid was great, and the roommate was good as well. A glimpse of reality. The rest was yawn.
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