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Wayne 2022-03-21 09:01:41

This movie is great, but I'm not interested in it! The realist blockbuster filmed by the realist master Lu Meite a year before I was born may have changed with time, and the current events have lost their practical significance. The Internet is 4G. If it weren't for the new crown epidemic, if it weren't for the air classroom, the TV would not be turned on for many years. The world is changing so fast, and the environment in which people live is completely different from generation to generation.

But the movie is really great. Those satires aimed at TV programs and TV people are completely copied and used to satirize a series of Internet phenomena such as the Internet, Internet information, and Internet celebrities. It is also accurate. "Entertainment to death", all the things we see are the products that the operators have invested in our favor in pursuit of higher economic interests. They are unreal, objective, incomplete and nutritious. TV is also an unstable industry. Operators focus on weekly data, and the Internet is even more concerned. Bosses focus on daily data, because that is the economic value. For them, what viewers and users can get from it is a P.

The old handsome guy who plays Howard seems to be the protagonist of "Sunset Boulevard"? Although he is handsome, his crazy provocative lines and insane state are completely unacceptable to me. This is the same as my antipathy to MLM, insurance practitioners, etc. No one can refute them in their words. Correct, people give up thinking completely, and the driving force behind it is completely self-interested and economical.

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  • Piper 2022-03-26 09:01:04

    Creepy, deafening, trembling all over after watching~~ 40 years later, the situation in the real world has further deteriorated~~

  • Jaylen 2022-04-23 07:01:41

    The TV industry that is restrained by the ratings, the TV people who have lost their humanity!

Network quotes

  • Howard Beale: [on the air] Last night, I was awakened from a fitful sleep shortly after two o'clock in the morning, by a shrill, civil and faceless voice. I couldn't make it out, at first, in the dark bedroom. And I said, "I'm sorry, you will have to talk a little louder"... The voice said to me, "I want you to tell the people the truth, not an easy thing to do, because the people don't want to know the truth." And, I said, "You're kidding. What the hell should I know about the truth?" But, the voice said to me, "Don't worry about the truth. I will put the words in your mouth." And I said, "What is this, the burning bush? For God sake, I'm not Moses." And the voice said to me, "And I'm not God! What does that got to do with it." And the voice said to me, "We're not talking about eternal truth or absolute truth or ultimate truth. We're talking about impermanent, transient human truth. I don't expect you people to be capable of truth; but, God damn it, at least you're capable of self-preservation!" And I said, "Why me?" And the voice said, "Because you're on television, dummy! You have 40 million Americans listening to you and after this show you could have 50 million. For Pete sake, I'm not asking you to walk the land in sack cloth and ashes, preaching the Armageddon. You're on TV, man!"

  • Laureen Hobbs: The Ecumenical Liberation Army is an ultra left sect, creating political confusion with wildcat violence and pseudo-insurrectionary acts - which the Communist Party does not endorse. The American masses are not yet ready for open revolt. We would not want to produce a television show celebrating historically deviational terrorism.

    Diana Christensen: Miss Hobbs, I'm offering you an hour of primetime television every week, into which you can stick whatever propaganda that you want.