Directed by Steven Spielberg.
Steven Spielberg's The Post is on investigation into what"truth" is. The lesson in the story is that even though it's hard to be objective, we have to strive to understand the truth and do the objectively right thing. So, ultimately the movie it's a rebuttal of the "alternative facts" era we find ourselves in right now.
Spielberg has said that he's "a believer in only truth, which is the objective truth." But the story end up showing how easily moral principles and personal factors get all tangled up - what's interesting is that it makes the point that this intermingling of objective and private feelings can be either for worse, or for better. Of course, Nixon is the negative example of what happens when someone lets personal motivations overtake their integrity and responsibility to serve the people. On the other end of the spectrum is Kay Graham, who's become publisher of the Washington Post in place of her late husband. Kay faces a dilema of personal loyalties when it's revealed that her friend Robert McNamara gave the public misleading information about Vietnam.
Kay makes her personal background a positive influence of her actions. In her security because she feels under some scrutiny because she's often the only woman in the room. She needs to prove to the world at large that publishing should include leaders of her gender. So it's more urgent and important that she does the right, and difficult thing.
Thus her personal bias helps her to make the right choice. Personal factors inevitably inform our lives and shape how we feel about things.
The Post says we can make this a good thing if we're committed to values that really matter, and remember that the truth is always the truth.
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