Review of Network (1976) by G Richard B — 13 Feb 2011
If you've got a lot of fear, and you need to get beyond it in order to progress, you can break through your apprehension by getting angry, but you run the risk that others will fear your anger, which would itself affect your ability to progress.
In the movie "Network," we explore what happens when we can get others to express their anger with us. Nobody was scared because they saw that the anger was impotent; it did not lead to action.
It was easy for the corporate usurer Arthur Jensen (Ned Beatty) to convince the latter day prophet Howard Beale (Peter Finch) that he was impotent because he was. Sure he could make people angry, but that anger had no values or principles.
It went off in all directions. It wasn't even the cheapest kind of anger wielded by politicians against each other, the power to destroy. Beale and his followers ended up exactly where they started, so full of fear that they thought the only way to take control of their own actions was to force their will on other people.
This review of Network (1976) was written by G Richard B on 13 Feb 2011.
Network has generally received very positive reviews.
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