just a großartiger film: network.

faszinierend, wie er heutige hypes wie globalisierung ("There are no nations! There are no peoples! There are no Russians! There are no Arabs! There are no third worlds! There is no West! There is only one holistic system of systems; one vast, interwoven, interacting, multivaried, multinational dominion of dollars!"), konstruktivismus, postmoderne ("All human beings are becoming humanoids. All over the world, not just in America. We're just getting there faster since we're the most advanced country.") und medienperversion auf eine treibende, sarkastische, treffsichere, pathetische und zynisch-predigende art vorwegnimmt (1976) bzw. antizipiert. publizistik-studenten dieser welt: look at that! This was the story of Howard Beale, the first known instance of a man who was killed because of lousy ratings.