9/10. In short, Network is an amazing movie. Being a sucker for the media
for too long, this movie (along with The Corporation, shown at this
year's Philadelphia Film Festival) changed my mind about the media,
mass corporation, and everything in between. The desperate measures
taken by this fiction television station are just so exploitative and
deceitful that they're probably true. The mistreatment of Howard
Beale just shocked me, which is what the movie wanted me to feel. The
acting was all superb, especially by Peter Finch (Beale), but I think
the most impressive part of the whole movie was the script by Paddy
Chayefsky. Not only did it ring a lot of truth, but all of the actors
carried it out so well. Overall, I only had two complaints about the
film. The first was the lack of music, which made this two-hour film
seem even longer. Second is the billing of this movie as a comedy. I
did not even laugh once. However, those two points are moot compared
to the complete impact the rest of the movie had upon me.
