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Very old film, but I still feel the same when I saw it today. Fortunately, I didn't miss it.

Now my mind is full of deep gray, very chaotic. The thoughts were not very clear, so I had to temporarily list the next thoughts one by one. Organize it later.

1. Max, beale and diana represent journalists of different natures. max should be a positive image. Both beale and diana are too extreme. The former is sought after for conveying public anger. The latter does everything in order to watch, blood, terror, and murder, in her opinion, are just sweet cakes that attract the public. The transitional pursuit of ratings has caused her to lose press freedom and press justice.

2. The relationship between the pure News Corporation and the controlling chaebol, the pure contradiction between the news person and the businessman. The chaebol in the film looks very ugly.

3. Beale, the most innocent and lovely old man. His destiny is doomed, so is it the same for the people's democracy movement?

4. Max, a cold-faced middle-aged man, seems to be the only normal character in this play, a journalist with traditional morality, and a journalist with real news significance. He can feel love, pain, loss, happiness, this is the real person. For Diana, it is a kind of courage to be obsessed, but not obsessed, to see the status quo and to get out. It would be great if he could pull the beale, but then there will be no more text.

5. Diana, the incarnation of television? It seems that the screenwriter as a filmmaker does not approve of television, or some of its practices. Is this film revenge or a kind reminder? Can film and television as the media reach a final settlement? Today it seems less hateful.

6. Is ratings the ultimate news? What if it goes against the basic principles of news in order to gain ratings? Murder is an extreme example, but in daily life, more minor examples often occur. Is this still news in the real sense?

7. As the top management jensen, I didn't understand the concept he conveyed through howard beale. Similar to the ultimate goal of society, communism, etc., it just uses vocabulary such as enterprise and business.

8. Mao Zedong's time? Ridiculous

9. The final revelation, to live a real life.

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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.

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