Fei Donnawei is so sexy in this film, it's amazing, what people call a white bone in the workplace, a tall and thin Fei. Donnawei explains that the concept of sexy is not the outstanding dazzling body, but the self-confidence and strength in the bones , I think she is basically the successor of Katherine Hepburn's style. She is not a beauty in the traditional sense. She has high cheekbones, three-dimensional lines, tall and thin eyebrows, and a pair of focused and neurotic eyes. Combined, she is a smart and challenging Sexual workplace woman image.
In the film, she is the incarnation of the devil in the workplace, a typical workaholic, thin, walking with style, capable, exaggerated, fanatical, and devoted to work like a chicken blood. Such a woman is what I have always hoped to become The kind of person, a man dressed in feminine clothes, a maniac in the workplace. She makes no secret of her emotional experience, admits that she treats sex and feelings like men, and has no advantages in matters other than work. The heroine has a unique freedom and decisiveness in her evaluation, because she is not good at dealing with other things. , so work became her all. I thought of the women in the foreign travel photos that I had seen. They often seemed to have an independent and confident attitude, and there was a certain similarity with the heroine in the play, that is, they were very focused on their work and Life, not hesitant, very calm. Several outfits of the heroine in the play are very good-looking and very suitable for her role. They look both professional and capable.
She is actually a man in exquisite professional attire. When a woman appears in the workplace with a sophisticated and capable image, she is a man under the appearance of a woman, even more realistic and rational than men. Revenue, ratings, this is the core of the media. This film from the 1970s has thoroughly reflected the role of the media, just like the self-media that is frantically racking its brains for traffic, sales, performance, data, and ratings. Since the birth of the media, this huge business machine has been Such madness. As William Holden said to the heroine in the film, the heroine is the embodiment of television, a running machine of the business society, keen, shrewd, and good at hyping and fueling the flames.
In the film, the shareholders of the TV station held a meeting. One faction proposed that there should be a bottom line and should not be fooled. After the performance is defeated, it is natural that unscrupulous hype will come to the fore.
The male protagonist in the film is a tragedy, a victim of the commercial society. He was kidnapped by the ratings and almost collapsed. He was unemployed and laid off for a while, and then became a hot news personality again. When it was profitable, despite the fact that he had a mental breakdown, let a lunatic continue to host the show, and when he regained his senses and walked according to his normal sense, he was abandoned because of the low ratings. The male protagonist is an involuntary puppet, a pawn manipulated by commercial interests. Even if he clearly realizes all this, how can he get rid of his own destiny? Breathtaking ending.
"why me?"
This is the host Howard questioning his fate when he has a nervous breakdown? why me? His question about unfair treatment? It is also the questioning of man when he encounters bad luck, his awakening and anger begin and end with death.
Seeing the fate of the male protagonist, I think the audience will ask, why not me?
The director of the company finally told the truth of the world:
"There is no country, no nation, no Soviets, no Arabs, no third world, no Western world, just a whole system of individual systems. A vast and infinite intertwined interplay, multi-variant , dollar, petrodollar, electroplating dollar, various dollars, this international currency system, determines the entire life of this planet, this is the natural law of everything today, this is today in the galaxy, everything, atomic Structure. No America, no democracy, only IBM and International Telephone and Telecommunications, Telegraph and Telephone... These are the "nations" that make up today's world, which is a body of corporations that relentlessly Determined by the immutable laws of business, the world is business."
It's true that the world is made of all kinds of money and interest groups, that's what the movie is trying to tell people, and it ends with the astonishing death of the hero, which has a symbolic meaning, that is, in a business society As a person, when he no longer has commercial value, it is equivalent to being declared that the life of the individual has died.
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