Compelling, intelligent, passionate, and funny if you have any perspective at all on the era. Unlike some bobos, I LOVED the script and its inclusion of words like peccant, impugn, immane, dotage--and characters who could fire them off like flamethrowers. Red meat for the literate. Ned Beatty's description of the corporate universe is more compelling than anything any fire-breathing preacher could ever concoct. Brilliant, brilliant film, and as fascinating today, if not more so, than when it first appeared.
Anyone who thinks this film is too "wordy" proves the case that Howard Beale makes--everything they know they got from television, the Great Stupifier.
Anyone who thinks this film is too "wordy" proves the case that Howard Beale makes--everything they know they got from television, the Great Stupifier.