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Breaking The Mirror: The Murdoch Effect

1997·Movie
1h 0min

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Breaking The Mirror: The Murdoch Effect fingerprint

Strong craft, low-key.

Energy

Calm and low-key

  • Tension5
  • Fast Pace4
  • Spectacle3

Heart

Emotionally reserved

  • Melancholy6
  • Nostalgia6
  • Pathos4

Humor

Some satire

Not a comedy at heart.

  • Satire & Parody5
  • Wit & Wordplay3
  • Dark Humor3

World

Society, everyday modern life, and politics

  • World Immersion7
  • Dialogue Centrality7
  • Rewatchability5

Craft

Solid, not remarkable

  • Direction7
  • Acting7
  • Narrative Structure7

Style

Functional look and sound

  • Cinematography6
  • Editing6
  • Music Composition5

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About

This 1997 film considers the downfall of the Daily Mirror, the newspaper Pilger worked on for 23 years: a popular, intelligent tabloid once read by a quarter of the British population and which genuinely reflected its readers' concerns. Pilger asks why the qualities seen in the paper prior to the 1970s are no longer apparent, examining the contraction of the press following the Sun's symbolic move to Wapping, coverage of the Hillsborough disaster, the fate of the Daily Mirror under Robert Maxwell, and the stranglehold of Rupert Murdoch.
Investigative JournalismMedia CriticismPolitical DocumentaryClass and CapitalismHistorical AnalysisBritish Tabloid DownfallSocial CommentaryThought-ProvokingPress Ethics

Crew

Directed by:
David Munro
Written by:
John Pilger

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No sequels or prequels available

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1 h 0 min

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What language is Breaking The Mirror: The Murdoch Effect in?

English

It was made in English.