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"The American people are turning sullen. They've been clobbered on all sides by Vietnam, Watergate, the inflation, the depression; they've turned off, shot up, and they've fucked themselves limp, and nothing helps."
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I should've seen it sooner.
What initially piqued my interest in it, aside from being a film from the '70s (my favorite decade for film), was that it was partly inspired by the on-air suicide of Christine Chubbuck.
Network is similar in a way to my favorite film, Privilege, in that both were considered to be outlandish at the time, viewed as slight possiblities of the future but are very relevant and true today.
Network is operatic, but entirely enthralling. The writing, directing, and acting are as perfect as I've seen from a film in quite some time.
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Faye Dunaway was absolutely breath-taking as Diana Christensen. Any other writer (as we've seen many times in other films, I'm sure) would've made her a 2-D caricature, but I love how complex she was. I loved her immediately and also resented her at other moments.
Also, Ned Beatty. I love schlock, I love B-movies, so I've seen plenty of his work; I've always enjoyed his performances. But the delivery of that speech? Absolutely brilliant.
Peter Finch totally deserved his Oscar, too. That probably goes without saying, but I gotta say it.
LOOK AT ME! I CAN'T SHUT UP!
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WORD. \m/
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I really need to make more posts about films in general. Especially since I've been having more out of print vhs adventures. That was more prevalent years ago, when I still had stores I could scavenge, which I've missed, so being able to do that again has been thrilling. Of course, the vcr ate the tape, but I found another copy to replace it. These are the things I do for '80s French films.
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I had about five minutes left of the film when the tape got eaten :/
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"What would you do if I died?"
And he tells her,
"I'd make you live again."
I still laugh when I remember an old man in the film who spent most of his days next to a jukebox. He loved David Bowie and Lou Reed but, "Julio Iglesias makes me want to vomit!"
Hopefully I'll get to, or else I'll make up my own ending.