TV station "crazy" and "cloud"

Jules 2022-03-24 09:01:37

"TV" is a film with a rigorous production and a serious theme. At the end of the film, the scene of the four TV shows at the beginning reappears, the news of "Bieux was murdered" and other commercials are continuously broadcast, and a murder with a huge conspiracy has become a fortune for tens of thousands of people. The people's pastime of "passing the boring time", the obscenity and filth of the TV industry have been magnified to the greatest extent at the end of the film.
This is a serious film, with a serious theme and a wide range of content. It discusses a series of issues such as the national economy and people's livelihood from the perspective of the TV industry. Furthermore, the ugly image of the TV industry's intrigue and profit-seeking was nakedly exposed. Unexpectedly, there are so many grievances and grievances and ugly conspiracies hidden behind the seemingly simple and interesting TV programs.
There is no soundtrack from the beginning to the end, only the monotonous program intro and ending song. Without the accompaniment, it means that there is no atmosphere creation, no emotional guidance, and everything needs to be felt by the audience. This inevitably makes the film a bit boring, but this may be the embodiment of the director's rigorous attitude. He just wants to present the most real state of the TV industry to the audience, and let the audience feel the serious theme that the film wants to express from a third-person perspective.
Rigorous style, serious themes, but a somewhat crazy romantic story to show it all. Serious news shows turned into free-spirited talk shows, and the deranged "Bieux" became a popular icon. In this somewhat bizarre story, what a bit of irony is contained in the director!
In the era of more and more developed communications, television has gradually become the main body of public opinion. However, the greed for profit manipulates the conscience of TV practitioners, which has to be worrying!

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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.