First Up, This movie is amongst one of my all time favorite movies. It is one of those super-smart movies which captures so much of The Human Experience in the post industrial era that it just blows you away.
If you want a sample of what I am talking about just have a look:
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_qgVn-Op7Q&feature=related *(The I am mad as hell speech, people just want to feel and that is about it, we all feel worthless, like zombies living mechanised life, we want to explore, we want to be angry, but there are explanations for everything, the ordinary human doesn't seek explanation, he simply wants to FEEL.)
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFvT_qEZJf8&feature=related *(Mass media has created this society of mass opinion, although maybe in the USA of 1976 it might have created a strong single segment, in the present day with the segmentations and customised products, we have diversity but still is that doing us any good, I love malls because they somehow make me feel like I can see the Human Animal in his zoo-ish imprisonment, with the chain of brands, values and ideas holding him so tight and telling him how to feel .. I just love to laugh)
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzSj1yNZdY8 *(And this is this is just one of my favorite scenes ever... the explanation by Jensen, the losing interest of audience. It's like the world intentionally wants to stay blind, No wonder the new version of matrix was a success.. lol, I am so going to become a geek after I am done with this.. meanwhile watch this.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHiX0FZcjkA)
Network is a 1976 American Satirical film released by MGM, about a fictional TV network UBS and it's struggle with poor ratings. It was written by Paddy Chayefsky, and directed by Sidney Lumet *(Sidney is a genius, if you ever have a chance try to watch 12 Angry Men and Network and you will realize what I am talking about).
The movie won 4 oscars
1. Best Actor - Peter Finch (He was the first to receive an Oscar after his death)
2. Best Actress -Faye Dunaway
3. Best Supporting Actress - Beatrice Straight
4. Best Writing, screenplay written directly for the screen - Paddy Chayefsky
The film was and still is an extraordinary movie and continued to receive many awards decades after it's initial release. In 2000 the film was selected for preservation by US National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant". The movie is a standard in the American filmmaking (Producers Guild of America, 2002).
The WIKI in this particular case doesn't do much justice to do this movie. It talks about the movie in a very dry dissecting form. I love this movie and would recommend it to all of all my friends. So I would like to say that this movie is one which has become part of the the cultural repertoire of Americans these days and missing out on a legend like this is like missing out some of those good things in life like eating only protein and missing out on the good food in the world.
Without culture a man isn't worth much and also from some of the previous blogs I have been getting a feeling that they are being a bit dry, like taking notes for myself =P ... although that is the intention, I think it doesn't really serve the purpose of doing it publicly except maybe that it puts a certain social pressure on me to deliver on my word. lol.. well the thing is like, I will try to keep getting more and more fluid, mixing my opinions with the data given on WIKI, but what I am trying to do is to provide a distinction between the wiki knowledge & my opinions but I guess if you want the exact info you can always visit the Wiki page I give as the source =)
So here is to more opinionated blogs for the future... Next one, the tipping point ;)
And yeah, any recommendations for future blog ideas are invited =) .. I am not doing it for myself, knowledge gained has power.. but knowledge shared gives great pleasure =)
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