In the early years, the United States has been perceived by many countries and people around the globe as the capital of democracy and freedom. It seemed that only the United States could represent the most fundamental interests of democracy and freedom-loving people.
With this so-called universal consensus, the United States, starting with its victory in World War II, spared no effort to promote its own set of so-called correct values on a global scale. The results over the decades have been remarkable in today’s world situation.
But will this push continue? It is clear that decades of values are vulnerable in the face of 2020, and soon the U.S. will be slapping itself in the face with its own practical actions. However, this kind of face-punching comes from the outside, while the face-punching that comes from the inside has been going on silently, and the film industry, as a communication medium, has been silently documenting it for decades.
For example, the film we present to you today is about a slap in the face, and it is not an obvious slap in the face, but a cool, objective slap in the face to the American society of the time. Of course, at the time it seemed like a slap in the face that woke up a lot of people, but those people soon went to sleep even more deeply.
In the decades that followed, the deeper sleepers never woke up again until the year 2020. The irony of the story is that it was told in the 1970s, a time when American society was much more liberal and democratic than it is today, when it was in turmoil.
However, the good side of these turbulent times was that people in the whole society started to think, and the bad side was naturally that when people started to look at the so-called global elite in front of them through thinking, they did not see the good. This film is conceived from this point of view, and ultimately leads us to a sickness in American society at the time, which is still present today, and even more so.
The main story of TVB is the story of a news show host who is about to go down in the dumps due to declining ratings. When he learns that he is about to be fired, he begins to drop all his baggage and talk to himself.
He did not expect that the ratings of the show he hosted would skyrocket after he did so. Because of this, the entire network took a second look at him and repackaged a program based on the needs of the current audience, a program designed to tell the truth, the “truth” that the people liked.
Soon, however, the negative effects of this program became apparent, and the reality of some of the most important events in the world, based on the ratings theory, ended up being compromised by the revelations in the program.
But the audience and the capitalists behind the TV station supported the host’s program. And the station’s leaders were upset with the host because the show said too many things that should not have been said. Thus, a nefarious plan was born. The host was reduced to an instrument in this program. Yet this was the state of American society at the time.
If we look at the films of Lümet, we can see that this was a very important American director, and his style was by no means elevated to the altar like Kubrick’s, nor was it a label like Hitchcock’s. On the contrary, if we look at the films of domestic directors, we can see that this was a very important American director.
On the contrary, if we measure Lumet by domestic directors, he is more like a collection of fifth generation directors. On the one hand, he saw the many problems in American society at that time with a critical eye, and on the other hand, he showed them to the audience in a very popular way with his art.
Each of the director’s films, such as “Hot Afternoon” and “Fantastic Nuclear War”. He always captures the main contradictions of American society at that time very accurately and shows them to the public. The main contradiction in this film is the tragedy of an era in America at that time, and we must have heard of the fallen generation.
This generation is called the Beat Generation because they lived through a period of social and world turmoil, yet they were unable to change the world, or even decide for themselves. Through this film we can see the general image of the times these people lived through.
Materialism is king, capital is king, and entertainment is king. Ideas are merely exploited without relying on their true brilliance. All of us were headstrong, judged other people’s lives by our own values, and these people were easily misled.
The television, as the most successful medium in guiding public opinion at that time, could naturally make a certain amount of headway, but this headway did not reflect the American liberal democracy, but selfishness. In the film, there is a sentence that speaks volumes about the current state of American society at that time.
In the view of the American elites, the whole world is not composed of countries, but an association of enterprises, which to a certain extent reflects the fundamental view of Americans. The United States was not a country, but rather an area where people with the same “aspirations” gathered.
However, the social situation reflected in “TV Wind” is just a special period of life of all the people in this region. They abandoned their lives and devoted themselves to so-called work. When everyone loses their human nature and turns to a kind of data, a kind of capital, a kind of material wealth, the whole society becomes a kind of pathological conglomerate.
This is so obvious, so obvious that it was asserted decades ago, and yet today we realize that as long as we can cover our ears, America will not change at all. Unless it passively embarks on a completely new starting line, 2020 is an opportunity to test it decades late and eventually come to America’s rescue.
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