All The President's Men Analysis

The film, “All the President’s Men ”, focuses mainly on the story of two Washington Post reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, uncovering the mystery of the Watergate burglary on June 17, 1972. The film begins with the burglars getting caught in the Democratic National Committee headquarters. Woodward starts investigating the burglary after hearing details, so he begins to call sources to confirm information. Bernstein, who was also interested in the report, takes Woodward’s papers and revises them. Although Woodward gets mad at Bernstein for taking his papers without telling him, they are both assigned to the report and begin to work diligently together to undercover facts. The two slowly acquire new information through indirect and anonymous sources. For example, Woodward meets Deep Throat at 2am and Bernstein visits a woman’s house and asks her to confirm information. However, throughout the film their editors are continuously reluctant to

Specifically, the scenes that portray the two reporters meeting with people for their investigation. They would always get to a certain point before the person would say that they couldn’t give them any more information. This was happening because the government was spying on both the sources and the reporters. Therefore, the people were expected to keep their mouths shut about the hard-hitting facts in fear of the consequences.
The final thing that was illustrated in this film was self-concept. During this time, the publishing companies never fully investigated scandals independently because they lacked facts and didn’t want to go out of business. In other words, they only reported on events that they had clear information for which was usually published in other companies as well. Because the two reporters fully under covered the scandal with full confidence and defied the odds against their editors and the government, they had a very high sense of