As the most influential national newspaper on the West Coast, the Los Angeles Times has an impact that is enough to shake half of the land on the North American continent.

This article "Reading the 'Seven Deadly Sins' from Hugo Lancaster" by Nicholas easily shakes the public opinion trend of this American society. Putting aside the media's self-reflection and criticism of the "National Inquiry" in the past month, Nicholas's perspective on the "Seven Deadly Sins" is obviously unique.

When most media came into contact with the movie "Seven Deadly Sins", they were like Shamoses in the movie. Their first thought was to think of religion. What they saw more was the religious issues hidden behind this movie, faith, sin, and the most atonement. The hidden core of this movie should be that the murderer judged society as God and punished the seven deeds.

But Nicholas was not the case.

Nicholas almost avoided the religious significance of the "Seven Deadly Sins". He believed that this movie and the Seven Deadly Sins were just a medium. Through this medium, the director and screenwriter reflected social problems: social indifference created the breeding of the Seven Deadly Sins. When facing social darkness, social corruption, and social problems, people chose to protect themselves, arm themselves with indifference, and refused to contribute their strength to the changes of society.

Just like the three characters in the movie, Shamosey chose to escape, Mills chose to resist, but his power was too weak and he was swallowed up, and the murderer used extreme means to deter the entire society. But the problem is that it seems, as if, probably, maybe, maybe... only the murderer succeeded.

So, the "Seven Deadly Sins" left an eternal question: We all know that this society is pathological and distorted, but what should we do? The movie gives a question mark in the story, and the voice-over of the sentence "This world is beautiful and worth our struggle for. I only believe in the second half" is truly thought-provoking.

Nicholas' unique perspective unearthed the realistic meaning of the movie and also pushed the "Seven Deadly Sins" to a new height, allowing this work to be separated from simple homicide suspense works and simple religious works, becoming a mirror that reflects the cruel problems of social reality.

What's even more coincidental is that the stormy Hugo incident in August has not yet disappeared, making everyone feel the bone-broken cold: even the uncrowned king they trust most has lost their blood, faith, and persistence. They have no choice but to make business interests, and have been entertained to the bone marrow. This is the fundamental reason why all people and the entire society launch an attack on the news media.

If the single "apologize" comes from the ridicule of glory to death, then the "Seven Deadly Sins" are the whipping and torture from every media practitioner's heart. Samosai in the movie actually represents the media practitioner. He is a law enforcement officer, but he is escaping the idea of ​​upholding justice in his heart. He has tried and struggled. Now he has given up. He knows the darkness and corruption of this society, but he has no way to make changes. This is the current situation of media practitioners.

It has to be said that Nicholas's perspective is sharp, which has also pushed the debate in the past month to a peak, truly elevating the Hugo incident from a simple Hollywood entertainment industry to a social problem level.

Just as the murderer in the "Seven Deadly Sins" movie tried to use the crime of the Seven Deadly Sins to make a masterpiece that alerts the world, Nicholas's film review also quickly became a shock that sounded the social alarm, causing a stir throughout the North American continent. This is a situation that Xinyi Film Company had never expected when it released the "Seven Deadly Sins".

September is a disaster for any movie. New Line Film Company originally wanted to use Hugo's appeal and the focus of the showdown between Hugo and Brad, making the "Seven Deadly Sins" a new force to become the only topical work in September, and then attracting all viewers to enter the cinema.

But now the whole situation has changed drastically.

A film review by the Los Angeles Times directly pushed the "Seven Deadly Sins" to the top of the topic, completely igniting the continuous and profound discussions over the past month and a half.

This issue of the Los Angeles Times set a new sales record since the 1990s, selling 4.3 million copies in just 24 hours, and subsequent sales still did not stop. After two rounds of printing, Nicholas's film review sold a total of 6.15 million copies across the United States!

This is not only the sales record of the Los Angeles Times, but also the sales record of all newspapers and magazines in the United States in the 1990s! Since the birth of television, newspaper sales have begun to slowly decline in the 1980s. After entering the 1990s, there are only a handful of newspapers that can achieve sales of 5 million. Even top newspapers such as the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times have only hovered around 4.5 million. This data has dropped at an exponential rate after entering the 21st century. In 2014, the sales volume of many newspapers was even less than half of that of the 1990s.

Therefore, the Los Angeles Times sold such an amazing sales in one fell swoop, making people clearly feel the shock of the entire North American continent.

Compared with the "Schindler's List" that caused an uproar, the "Seven Deadly Sins" naturally cannot get the support of the Jews, and the propaganda offensive and social impact are completely different. However, the social public opinion frenzy this time even exceeded the heat wave created by the "Schindler's List"!

This is actually a long process. As Nicholas said in his article, it started from the 1980s to the Rodney King incident and the Michael Jackson incident. This time, the representatives of the United States and even affected the world, directly spawned the resistance on August 5, and challenged the authority of the uncrowned king.

If the previous turmoil was just a vague line between the supervision of media public opinion, freedom of speech, professional ethics of pursuing the truth and social values ​​of interests, and entertainment began to erode the news media until death; then Nicholas used the carrier of "Seven Deadly Sins" to push the entire incident from the news media to the height of the entire society: this is not just the problem of the uncrowned kings, but the indifference and cruelty that penetrated into the bone marrow are social problems!

This time, almost no one is exceptional. From journalists to lawyers to doctors, from entertainment to sports to politics, from media to universities to workplaces, all discussions began with a prairie fire, and then detonated volcanoes in various parts of the North American continent, triggering a terrifying blowout.

Driven by several major newspapers such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post, more than half of the people in the United States joined the heated discussion. The three major TV stations, plus Fox TV, the main cooperative media of state governments, mainstream radio stations in major cities, and six of the top ten newspapers in the United States have all been involved in this craze.

Even Bill Clinton spent five minutes and three questions on the topic at the official press conference; White House spokesperson Mike McCurry (Mccurry) was forced to hold a special press conference to respond positively to the recent condemnation of the news media.

At this time, there is more than a year left before next year's presidential election, and the media within the news industry, entertainment until death, and the issue of interests supremacy has become an important issue in this election.

Things have developed to this point and have completely derailed. They are no longer the simple Hugo problem, nor are they simple "Seven Deadly Sins" issues. This is a profound social problem that affects various fields such as education, economy, communication, entertainment, and politics. This may be a situation that no one expected. Nicholas did not expect, Hugo did not expect, and Anthony, Colin and others who initiated all this did not expect.

This is how history is, and it has been imprinted with profound trajectories inadvertently. Those seemingly accidental events often carry necessity.

Perhaps, when Hugo wanted to give Michael Jackson a clean innocence and chose to stand up bravely, it had become a catalyst for today's change; perhaps, as early as the Rodney King incident, Hugo expressed his indignation, which had laid the groundwork for today's shock; of course, it is more likely that when Anthony created the Golden Globes incident, the ignorant and young Hugo first experienced the power of the media, and the seeds were planted that day.

Under this wave, the "Seven Deadly Sins" stood at the forefront of the storm. The social problems reflected in this movie are either fairy tales or novels, but real life that happens around everyone. Every detail and every event in it are empathetic to the audience. Shamose is the representative of the audience, not only the bystander of the story, but also the participant of the story. Shamose's confusion, confusion, and helplessness are also reflected in the hearts of every audience.

This film review by Nicholas has almost created the most vigorous publicity in film history for the "Seven Deadly Sins". At the same time, it has officially recorded the "Seven Deadly Sins" in history, becoming one of the most important works in film history. It stands on the same ranks with works such as "Male and Female Thieves", "Great White Sharks", and "Citizen Kane" that have changed the history of the film and changed the social process.

This is what no one expected.

However, objectively speaking, Nicholas's view is based on the core idea of ​​the film "Seven Deadly Sins". He did not comment on the film itself, and he did not even clearly mention his feelings about the film. Although his articles clearly admired the film.

So, in addition to the social response caused by movies, from a professional film perspective, is the "Seven Deadly Sins" considered a good work? This seems to be a topic that needs to be discussed further.
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