Total Control of the Mind: Analyzing Network (1976) - Bazed Lit Analyzer & Jay Dyer
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The Assassination of Howard Beale
The movie is prescient, it's revelatory, and it's now. People have tried to make heads or tails of what's happened in the media recently with the two big figures, um, who recently departed their, their big places. It not only becomes a meta meta satire, but it also does this weird thing where it unites comedy and tragedy in a way where it's ambiguous because In the tragedy, the character falls from a high to a low position, right into death or exile. He's about to be exiled at the beginning of the film, but instead he makes his way through the thing and then he dies. The whole thing that they're doing is comedic because it
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