" I want you stand right now, you go to the window, open your, you bring forth the head and gritéis: I am more than fed up and I will not keep supporting it!" This is what screams front of a camera several times the presenter Howard Beale in his news program, and immediately thousands of people take their heads out the window of their homes screaming that they are more than fed up and do not intend to continue supporting it.
Network, directed by Sidney Lumet in 1976, revolves around an American television network and its leaders. Also about newscaster Howard Beale, who loses his head and becomes an angry preacher, shooting the audience of his almost finished program. Chain managers do not hesitate to take his madness to make the news in a kind of show that acts as a stirrer Beale masses with his speeches, raising the audience week after week.
Network was released in Spain with the tagline A ruthless world. And indeed, throughout the film is uncovering a world where everything changes from night to morning, in which nothing matters except the audience, why TV executives are able to do whatever, reaching limits incredible and insane. In this world there is no place for truth or ethics. Curiously, although with 30 years standing, when you see the film now seems wildly, as it reflects exactly the spirit that reigns on TV today in our country (the television as we know). Anyone who watches the news on Tele 5 will realize how little we care about the truth and currently does not offer show.
In the same way, the discourse that comes from the mouth of alienated TV presenter is perfectly consistent and still sense today. TV controls us and influences us more than we believe, and in a way inevitable. As Beale says, we can not turn it off because we have nothing else, has seduced us so that our life seems to us impossible without it. I hate to be alarmist, but this movie makes us think, a lot.
Finally, I would point out that the Writers Guild of America has called the script Network as one of the ten best scripts in movie history. Despite my little test, I can assure that they lack reason.
Network, directed by Sidney Lumet in 1976, revolves around an American television network and its leaders. Also about newscaster Howard Beale, who loses his head and becomes an angry preacher, shooting the audience of his almost finished program. Chain managers do not hesitate to take his madness to make the news in a kind of show that acts as a stirrer Beale masses with his speeches, raising the audience week after week.
Network was released in Spain with the tagline A ruthless world. And indeed, throughout the film is uncovering a world where everything changes from night to morning, in which nothing matters except the audience, why TV executives are able to do whatever, reaching limits incredible and insane. In this world there is no place for truth or ethics. Curiously, although with 30 years standing, when you see the film now seems wildly, as it reflects exactly the spirit that reigns on TV today in our country (the television as we know). Anyone who watches the news on Tele 5 will realize how little we care about the truth and currently does not offer show.
In the same way, the discourse that comes from the mouth of alienated TV presenter is perfectly consistent and still sense today. TV controls us and influences us more than we believe, and in a way inevitable. As Beale says, we can not turn it off because we have nothing else, has seduced us so that our life seems to us impossible without it. I hate to be alarmist, but this movie makes us think, a lot.
Finally, I would point out that the Writers Guild of America has called the script Network as one of the ten best scripts in movie history. Despite my little test, I can assure that they lack reason.
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