Jul 07, 2015franque rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
The Network is film as prophecy. Disturbing, biting in humor, and stark in depicting not only television, but life as imbued by the constant lure/lull of the screen (any screen will do). The only thing I'll say of the ending is that it's typical of the 70's with a bluntness that edges into your skull. People probably focus on this film as a commentary on TV. I suspect this film is a commentary on the perpetual dehumanization of us not by corporations or communists, but by our own participation in denying out of fear what were clearly being told by the elite powers that be. Have people been killed in the name of "infotainment"? Is what you see on the news real? Does even our precious NPR or Fox news actually come from sources that are bought & sold to fulfill global domination agendas? In Network the backdrop is news & TV. Is it possible that if the writer of this film were alive today the backdrop would be environmentalism, transhumanism, and the UN? If you watched this film & it didn't make you see clearly how everything since it's release has come true, and doesn't make you wonder just where things are going, then you are already like Dunaways character, TV (and all media) incarnate.
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