Network Comments

  • Kathleen 2022-04-24 07:01:05

    Some not-so-related thoughts: human beings built society that kills their humanity in turn. In the mundane world there is only a glimpse of the false truth that everyone aspires to believe. Absolute truth does not exist. Extreme and crazy are two DNA single strands that complement each other. Everyone is eager to break through the lower limit in their bones, but mortals wait for others to lay out their bestiality for them, because they are still delusional about entering a paradise that does...

  • Michel 2022-04-24 07:01:05

    Maybe it's because I think Lumet's Twelve Angry Men is too powerful, and the other works he directed can't be compared with...

  • Xzavier 2022-04-24 07:01:05

    It opened my eyes. I don't recommend this movie to anyone...

  • Edmond 2022-04-24 07:01:05

    William Holden and Faye Dunaway are amazing. The audience in the movie is hysterical, and the audience outside the movie is also a little...

  • Alana 2022-04-24 07:01:05

    Oscar is very fond of chatter characters. The best female supporting role is really good, although it is only a few minutes, but the character is really three-dimensional. Whether the role is good or not is not only in the acting skills of the actors, but also in the creation of the screenwriter. Some characters feel fake no matter how they look at it, because the scriptwriters make them fake, so how do people act... Is the audience so blindly obedient? ? ? The part where he made the TV fake is...

  • Kamryn 2022-04-24 07:01:05

    I don't think it's too exciting, but I really like Fei Dunaway's character, which is strong, beautiful and impeccable. "I know the first thing you're going to ask me is: what is her weakness? Don't ask. She has no weakness." When Lumet and Fei first met, before they could get to Fei, he just like this said. Yes, that's what she did. Max's wife also did a great job. On the contrary, male characters are not so brilliant. Saw it at the end of September...

  • Will 2022-04-24 07:01:05

    Sidney Lumet should be the director with the most discerning actors. Although this kind of drama is roaring, but the lines are turned off and the voice is turned off. Everyone's ambition, greed and desire are on their faces. Different from Li Mou frowning and roaring, all the roles played by Li Mou have no lines and do not know what he is doing. This is the gap between actors and actors. Compared with the one-man show "Joker", it actually tells the same story, but the interpretation is...

  • Eriberto 2022-04-23 07:01:41

    Maybeshewill's Not For Want Of Trying used a passage from the...

  • Dee 2022-04-23 07:01:41

    The themes are complex but not cluttered. Angry prophets attack the hypocrisy of the times, a group of absurd, crazy, restless media...

  • Reva 2022-04-23 07:01:41

    The conscience of capital is lost, the entertainment of the media is to death, mercenary is the new packaging of the idealistic angry youth card, the drama within the drama, the perfect, hoarse and even a bit over-performed, an era that needs to be vented. "You are the embodiment of TV. Indifferent to pain, to Pleasure is dulled. Life is nothing but ordinary rubble. War, murder, death...just like a few beers to...

Extended Reading

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  • Howard Beale: We'll tell you anything you want to hear, we lie like hell.

  • Howard Beale: [arms outstretched to the heavens] Edward George Ruddy died today! Edward George Ruddy was the Chairman of the Board of the Union Broadcasting Systems, and he died at eleven o'clock this morning of a heart condition, and woe is us! We're in a lot of trouble!

    Howard Beale: [calmly strolling toward the audience] So. A rich little man with white hair died. What has that got to do with the price of rice, right? And *why* is that woe to us? Because you people, and sixty-two million other Americans, are listening to me right now. Because less than three percent of you people read books! Because less than fifteen percent of you read newspapers! Because the only truth you know is what you get over this tube. Right now, there is a whole, an entire generation that never knew anything that didn't come out of this tube! This tube is the Gospel, the ultimate revelation. This tube can make or break presidents, popes, prime ministers... This tube is the most awesome God-damned force in the whole godless world, and woe is us if it ever falls in to the hands of the wrong people, and that's why woe is us that Edward George Ruddy died. Because this company is now in the hands of CCA - the Communication Corporation of America. There's a new Chairman of the Board, a man called Frank Hackett, sitting in Mr. Ruddy's office on the twentieth floor. And when the twelfth largest company in the world controls the most awesome God-damned propoganda force in the whole godless world, who knows what shit will be peddled for truth on this network?

    Howard Beale: [ascending the stage] So, you listen to me. Listen to me: Television is not the truth! Television is a God-damned amusement park! Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, side-show freaks, lion tamers, and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business! So if you want the truth... Go to God! Go to your gurus! Go to yourselves! Because that's the only place you're ever going to find any real truth.