Life: Synchronicity in action 2

[wolven7]

The movie Network is on, right now.

There are movies that teach you things about how the world works, offer certain kinds of revelations about... things, you know? The Matrix, Pi, Dark City, Donnie Darko. They grow out of a gestalt or a zeitgeist, and integrate those things into themselves. Network is, I think, the opposite of that, or maybe the inverse... It doesn't amass things, from a single current, to find itself, so much as it taps into the archetypes of politics, and American television production. The dangers of fame, the mutation and blind corruption of purpose (note the use of the word "blind"). The slow descent into madness, as your audience reveals itself to only have been listening for that 15 minutes, seconds, heartbeats. Whatever...

Go watch Network. It's on TCM, right now, and I had to stop, because Howard Beale (who is in the boredom killing business) exhorted me to turn off my television, in the middle of his sentence, and then he passed out. So I listened to him.

You should listen to all of him, though. Maybe three or four times. Then you can turn off your TV, when he tells you too.

Deep down inside, there's this seething simmering anger, a rage waiting for the trigger, waiting for something to set it ablaze, and you could do a lot worse than to have that thing be Network.

Time for bed, I do believe.

Comments

[benlehman.livejournal.com]

Network is a fucking fantastic movie.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

I love it, so much.

[fmephisto.livejournal.com]

One of the most under-appreciated movies ever.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Agreed. It's not a movie you can say, in a critical thinking class, "You all need to watch this film." For that, I point to Thank You For Smoking and Idiocracy. But, if you need someone to see the power of rage, and of will, and of the pitfalls of these things, when stripped of meaning...

I want to watch this, in conjunction with V for Vendetta...