Saturday 6 June 2015

Network


Rating: 100%


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Also Known As:
Unknown
Version:
Language:
English language…
Length:
116 minutes
Review Format:
Cinema
Year:
1976
Country:
United States…
Predominant Genre:
Comedy
Director:
Sidney LUMET…
Outstanding Performances:
Faye DUNAWAY… Robert DUVALL… Peter FINCH… Beatrice STRAIGHT…
Premiss:
Television network cynically-exploits a mentally-ill newscaster’s ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit.
Themes:
Advertising | Alienation | Christianity | Corporate Power | Courage | Curative | Destiny | Emotional repression | Empathy | Erotophobia | Family | Free Speech | Friendship | God | Humanity | Identity | Individualism | Loneliness | Love | Loyalty | Materialism | Narcissism | Nationality | Nostalgia | Original Sin | Personal | Personal change | Political | Political Correctness | Republicanism | Sadomasochism | Schizophrenia | Self-Esteem | Sex | Sexual Repression | Solipsism | Stereotyping | White culture | White supremacy
Similar to:
Hospital (1971)… Critical Care (1997)…

White Man’s Rage

Summary: Critique of the Ethical Sewer of Caucasian tv and the Death of Democracy Resulting from Globalization.

Prophetic movie that gets the psychopathic moral-emptiness of White culture just about right. A fine script, perfect performances and nimble direction make this absolutely-riveting from beginning to end.

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Science:



No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.



Jacob Bronowski… (1908 - 74), British scientist, author. Encounter (London, July 1971).


Sleep of Reason:



The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.



Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes… (1746-1828), Spanish painter. Caption to Caprichos, number 43, a series of eighty etchings completed in 1798, satirical and grotesque in form.


Humans & Aliens:



I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.



Terence… (circa 190-159 BC), Roman dramatist. Chremes, in The Self-Tormentor [Heauton Timorumenos], act 1, scene 1.


Führerprinzip:



One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves… There is no organ of conciliation or mediation interposed between the leader and the people, nothing in fact but the apparatus - in other words, the party - which is the emanation of the leader and the tool of his will to oppress. In this way the first and sole principle of this degraded form of mysticism is born, the Führerprinzip, which restores idolatry and a debased deity to the world of nihilism.



Albert Camus… (1913-60), French-Algerian writer & philosopher. The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt: New York: Vintage Books, (1984; page 182.)