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# James NortonMr. Jones

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Only one Truth
  

*by A***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 25, 2023*

One of the most poignant scenes in this film, depicts Gareth Jones' ride in what might be best described as a cattle car packed with starving Ukrainian peasants. As he peels an orange, the others in the car enviously stare at him, their eyes hollowed out in starved faces. He tosses the peel onto the car floor and the peasants pounce on it.This scene is adapted from Jones' March 29, 1933 press release, which ran in the Manchester Guardian and New York Evening Post, among other newspapers, shortly after his return from his March 1933 trip through Ukraine, during which he disembarked from his train 40 miles too soon and made an unauthorized detour through “the black earth region,” Russia's bread basket, only to find mass starvation and death, all a result of Stalin's forced collectivization and export of Ukrainian gain to Moscow.The press release read, in part:“In the train a Communist denied to me that there was a famine. I flung a crust of bread which I had been eating from my own supply into a spittoon. A peasant fellow-passenger fished it out and ravenously ate it. I threw an orange peel into the spittoon and the peasant again grabbed it and devoured it. The Communist subsided. I stayed overnight in a village where there used to be two hundred oxen and where there now are six. ”Jones was then targeted by considerable blow back from other newspapers against the bald truth he'd exposed, most notably from the New York Times' Moscow bureau chief, Walter Duranty, notorious for his denial of the forced Ukrainian famine that killed millions. The Soviet Union subsequently banned him from again traveling there; worse, the only job open to him was back in Cardiff at the Western Mail, for which he'd written earlier of his Feb. 23, 1933 flight with Hitler and Joseph Goebbels to Frankfurt and the city's boisterous reception of the new chancellor on his arrival.Some of the movie is apparently fictionalized. For example George Orwell figures in the film as working on Animal Farm at the same time as the events depicted, but as Diana West has pointed out, Orwell's Aminal Farm was published in 1945, and he hadn't written it until at least 1943, 10 years after Stalin's manufactured Ukraine famine.Also, in the film, Jones claims to have learned of something “big” from a journalist named Paul Kleb and upon his arrival in Moscow he asks for his friend only to learn that he'd been shot four times in the back outside a prominent Moscow hotel a few days earlier. I can find no history of any Paul Kleb in that period, or ever, journalist or otherwise.I conclude this character is the film maker's anachronistic homage to Paul Klebnikov, the late investigative journalist and Forbes Moscow bureau chief, who was indeed shot four times (from a slow-moving car) in Moscow on July 9, 2004. He died during his transport into surgery in an elevator that broke down.Russia may no longer be Soviet, but its leaders' totalitarian and thuggish tendencies continue.This film has many great features to recommend it, including fine acting and an engaging script, especially to anyone interested in truth. And to quote Jones' character, “There is only one truth.”Alas, very few journalists today pursue it, and the mainstream media in general discourage this pursuit.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Finally, A Great Film Depicting the "Other Holocaust".
  

*by D***. on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 30, 2020*

Gareth Jones, a British journalist in his late-twenties, rides in a dark, dank, and crowded train car packed with Ukrainian peasants. After he peels an orange and carelessly tosses the skin away, several passengers scurry onto the floor in an attempt to gather something to eat. They are starving. Indeed, all of Ukraine and much of the Soviet Union is starving due to the forced collectivization of farmland and seizure of grain by Stalin’s Communist Party.This is one of the most harrowing and enduring scenes from the remarkable film, “Mr. Jones” (2019), based upon the real-life investigative journalism of Welsh-born Gareth Jones that uncovered the Holodomor, the mass starvation of millions of Ukrainians by man-made famine.  The film is remarkable not only for the times and events it recreates so compellingly, but also due to the fact that it was even made. While there have justifiably been scores of films depicting the Holocaust, the number of movies presenting the story of the Holodomor have been few to non-existent.Jones first arrives in Moscow as a young and naïve “stringer” or freelance journalist hoping to get an interview with Soviet leader Josef Stalin. He wants to understand how the Soviet Union has transformed itself into a modern, industrious, and egalitarian “workers’ paradise” in only five years.  Supposedly it is due to “Stalin’s gold”, the miles and miles of grain fields in Ukraine. However, he is shocked when many of his colleagues, including Walter Duranty – the New York Times reporter who won a Pulitzer Prize for his fawning coverage of the Soviet “miracle” – are willing to look the other way after a fellow journalist named Paul Kleb has been shot dead with four bullets in the back. Jones discovers that Kleb was on to something happening in Ukraine, one of the Soviet “republics”. When Ada, a reporter from Berlin, explains that her lack of inquisitiveness surrounding the murder of a friend and colleague is because the communist cause is too important, Jones is appalled. He tells her that he wants to find the truth. “Who’s truth?” Ada asks. “There is only one truth,” replies Jones.And indeed, Jones is determined to go to Ukraine in pursuit of the truth. After eluding his “big brother” – a government-assigned chaperone – Jones witnesses not fields of gold, but starvation and death. From dead bodies frozen in the snow, to skeletal laborers being forced to load sacks of grain onto trains, to starving, orphaned children resorting to cannibalism, Jones confirms his suspicions – that the Soviet government has been telling lies and western journalists have been enabling those lies.Interspersed throughout the film are scenes of George Orwell composing his great allegorical fable of the Russian Revolution, Animal Farm. When Orwell describes bleating sheep mindlessly repeating the various propagandistic phrases which the ruling pigs have pronounced that day – we understand perfectly to whom he is referring, the media.P.S. Please ignore the reviews which say this film is slow or boring. Those are probably from people who only like action films and don't have the patience to let characters develop and a story to unfold. There is one scene of nudity, however.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
    Bellissimo film
  
  

*by I***A on Reviewed in Italy 🇮🇹 on June 21, 2021*

Estremamente interessante per chi, come me, niente sapeva del pezzo di storia di cui si parla. Interessante e agghiacciante. James Norton è sempre di più un magnifico attore, intenso e contenuto, poco appariscente ma in grado di comunicare tutti i sentimenti del mondo con uno sguardo.

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