Network
is a 1976 American satirical film written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Sidney Lumet Network. It’s an infatuating cocktail of marketing, corporate cosmology and spirituality preached by a prophet of the modern era. Again Sidney Lumet harbored the idea of the social upheaval of 1970 America on the silver screen, as a result, a well-crafted, brilliantly written and intensively acted motion picture was born.
The movie caused a sensation in 1976. It was nominated for 10 Oscars, and won four Academy Awards, in the categories of Best Actor (Finch), Best Actress (Dunaway), Best Supporting Actress (Straight), and Best Original Screenplay (Chayefsky).
It’s wickedly distorted views of the way television looks, sounds, and, indeed, is, are the satirist's cardiogram of the hidden heart, not just of television but also of the society that supports it and in turn, supported. It showed the pestilence of TV and in our case internet, on the social behavior and intellect.
It satirically condemned the society, democracy and the TV channels for the banality of our society, and urged the people to know the real humanitarian truth on nations, business magnets and their own way of life. “I am as mad as hell and I can’t take it anymore”This phrase has entered into the language.
It was the real voice of inflation and war infected America of the 1970s and currently of twenty-first century Indians.
The screenplay amplified the voice textures of all the cast members focusing on the situation which was a semiotic as well as a phonetic brilliance. Unlike Shakespearian comedy, it renounced conventional apollonian values. The movie conveyed the message of loss of individuality in current society created by illusions of TV. It manifested how TV channels could go to any extent for their ratings and it obscured real truth from the public who ludicrously followed each and every step from television.
Mr. Finch was phenomenal in his cast as a mad angry prophet, he relatively captured each and every notion of a common people, who reached to his break down a point from all the malicious of society and had nothing in his power to mend the situation, so he embraced chaotic tidal emotions within himself.
His acting was realistic and good enough to extract the hidden rage of the society. Friends watch it and embrace the truth: “democracy is dying giant and individuality is going to extinct in this era of internet and social networking”. It was a prophetic movie, which I thought accurately described the socio-political condition of present-day India. All the way I love it for its frankness and you will gonna love it too.
In 2000, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In 2002, it was inducted into the Producers Guild of America Hall of Fame as a film that has "set an enduring standard for U.S. American entertainment". In 2006, Chayefsky's script was voted one of the top-ten screenplays by the Writers Guild of America, East. In 2007, the film was 64th among the 100 greatest American films as chosen by the American Film Institute, a ranking slightly higher than the one AFI had given it ten years earlier.
I am going with 8.8/10 for this 40-year-old film that predicted the future.
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