"State of Play": the crisis of journalism from Hollywood

Even Hollywood is dealing with the crisis of journalism. The thriller of Kevin MacDonald "State of play" that, as the director, says "is a political conspiracy that the deep crisis in the print media, is supplanted by the blog, faster but related news based on more gossip and opinions on the facts. " State Of Play, from a British miniseries successful broadcast by the BBC in 2003, arrives in Italy April 30 2009. In the film, the main interest of MacDonald, is to talk about the relationship between the media revolution and the quest for truth. However the revolution of the media appears to be erasing the existence of traditional investigation journalism, suffocated by the needs of immediacy and speed of new technologies. And with whom it is also all the imagination, if romantic, of the journalist. What Russell Crowe is through its Cal McAffrey, flanked by the beautiful Rachel McAdams. He is old-fashioned reporter in search of truth on the road, with the first ever notebook and pen always in hand; she is a blogger, is the freshness and all the ingenuity of on line journalism. Join forces, and will have to learn."This is a thriller in which the conspiracy is 100% true - says MacDonald-in that is inspired by real-life situations, such as the Blackwater scandal" (a private military company, accused of abuse while performing security duties for the U.S. government in Iraq, ndr). "Many features of the defense, the United States and abroad-continue-director shall be tendered to private companies to monitoring of phone calls." Complete the impressive cast Ben Affleck, Robin Wright Penn, Jason Bateman, Jeff Daniels and a spectacular Helen Mirren in the role of director of the newspaper. In the BBS series was an English man, but the name remained the same: Cameron. The cast, originally was to be even more stellar. The protagonist of the film was Brad Pitt who left four days after the shooting.

Giorgia Pellecchia