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Kate Plays Christine and Network

posted 7 years ago by DarlesChickens
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While it’s easy for audiences to indict news stations for sensational news coverage to serve the one true god of money that Network indicted, it’s the audiences that are themselves to blame as consumers. Fresh off one of the most contested elections in U.S. history where there are debates about fake news versus mainstream media, this rings truer than ever.

What’s scarier is the film’s end proves that without saying as much. When it comes time for Sheil to pull the trigger to film the final scene and she says she can’t, it comes as a bit of a disappointment. This is what the audience has been promised for the past hundred minutes. But then we take a step back and realize what we wanted to see was a person kill herself for satisfaction. http://www.cutprintfilm.com/features/bleeds-leads-kate-plays-christine-network/

[–] richardjameshoban 7 years ago

I didn't feel that way. So the ending was a disappointment to me for another reason. I was just there to learn how such a pretty woman with a seemingly loving personality and so much going for her could possibly be pushed so far to take her life on tv. Whether it was a moment of weakness or some contrived plan so for me the ending caught me off gaurd. Especially how Kate suddenly changes her whole persona to not reflect Christine but rather seems like some know it all self proclaimed saint that pulls back all vulnerability and only displays anger. Christine with Rebecca Hall looks like its probably a better movie. Guess I will have to see.

[–] zooymtoo 7 years ago

You definitely need to see the other film.
If at all accurate (and many of the details seem to be) then Christine does not come across as having a loving personality at all.

She was very depressed and sometimes came across as maybe having a degree of autism because she could not connect to other people, was very socially awkward and pushed people away at every turn.
To some degree I think she may have done it because it was what she was convinced got peoples attention...the melodrama and the blood and guts that got the most headlining attention over her human interest stories..
But there's no doubt that she ultimately wanted the attention for herself...even if posthumously.