- Also Known As:
- Unknown
- Version:
- needed to precede following dl
- Languages:
- Length:
- 114 minutes (Uncut)
- Review Format:
- DVD
- Year:
- 2013
- Country:
- Predominant Genre:
- Comedy
- Director:
- Outstanding Performances:
- Premiss:
- Taking 24-hour news by storm.
- Themes:
- Advertising | Alienation | Coming-of-age | Compassion | Corporate Power | Courage | Destiny | Emotional repression | Empathy | Equality | Erotophobia | Ethnicity | Friendship | Gynophobia | Individualism | Justice | Loyalty | Materialism | Narcissism | Nostalgia | Personal | Political | Propaganda | Republicanism | Schizophrenia | Self-Esteem | Self-Expression | Sexual Repression | Solipsism | Stereotyping | Western world | White culture | White people | White privilege | White supremacy
- Similar to:
An enjoyable but mediocre parody of Fox News, Rupert Murdoch and the need of 24-hour tv news shows for a constant diet of news - no matter how trivial - to fill the 24 hours; explaining the necessary lowering of journalistic standards to fill this essential need.
The usual White fear of Black people - particularly being uncomfortable in their presence - is well-presented, along with the commonplace Caucasian sexual dreads. But more than this, American Exceptionalism, the news & prolefeed have become synonymous in a vain White attempt to conceal corporate propaganda behind a veneer of unquestioning patriotism. Yet, the inevitable White descent into Nazism that this represents is never meaningfully-explored, since this movie is a product of the same corporate mindset. That the powerful and the rich now openly-control the mainstream-media message means that they no longer need to shoot the messenger.
Not nearly as politically-astute as Network, because it does not really understand why White news is now more about entertaining than it is about informing; focusing, instead, upon jokes about the Americans’ traditionally-poor understanding of geography and the White delusion of the self-made man.
Too long and self-indulgent for its own good; breaking the old rule that brevity is the soul of wit
; this is an unfocused parody with too many thinly-drawn characters for any audience to really care about; undercutting its essential message that news should only tell the truth.
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