Even before the rise of Donald Trump, Aaron Sorkin claimed that “no predictor of the future - not even Orwell - has ever been as right as Chayefsky was when he wrote Network.” The film deals with the rise of infotainment, the decline of hard news, the birth of a culture in which we are assailed by an unending storm of images, the collapse of objective reality, and the emergence of a global market.
Friday, 2 March 2018
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