I just watched Network and I felt like writing up a little of my mgtow perspective on it. I had heard this was a great movie and social commentary, and I think I watched a few scenes on youtube a few years ago, but today I watched it in it's entirety and it I was very impressed. Strong rp and mgtow message. The main theme was about the facade of media and how it is cancer for the mind and how greed corrupts and destroys, but looking closer it is also treatise on the modern woman.

The main female lead may have represented a small subset of women back in the 70's but she is every social media ho out there today. Diana is pure unfettered hypergamy and ambition. The only thing she cares about is power and status and the only real happy moment for her in the film is when she's in the spotlight at a dinner being cheered on for her success(which she barely had anything to do with anyway). Sound familiar? Even during romanctic moments with Max all she can think about is "social media" essentially.

There's not much to go on with the wife, but she also seemed obsessed with appearances and incapable of self reflection, like Diana, but obviously dialed down a lot. I think she was more hurt by the insult to her dignity and the embarassement of having a cad husband, not so much that she was losing him. And it's obvious she would dutifully take him back to return to the status quo. Bit of a stretch since the wife has very few scenes, but decide for yourself.

There's also the black communist lady, who was hilarious. Her scenes were gold. But they show how fast she drops her political ideals for money and turns into a raving demon.

Of course most of the male characters were corrupt as hell too, but there is much more nuance, like in real life, and we could say Max is like that one in 1000 who take the pill and start to wise up, whereas with women, well, awalt.

The scenes between Max and Diana were brilliant and sums up everything the "redpill" sphere has been saying for years. He remarks a few times how that her whole life is just like playing out a tv script.

Here's some great quotes:

"I'm not sure she's (diana) capable of any real feelings. She's television generation. She learned life from Bugs Bunny. The only reality she knows comes to her from the tv set."

"Why is it that a woman always thinks that the most savage thing she can say to a man is to impune is cocksmanship? I gave up comparing genitals back in the schoolyard."

"You're one of howards(insert bigtech ceo) humanoids, If I stay with you I'll be destroyed ... like everything that you and the institution of television touch is destroyed."

"you're (social media) incarnate diana. Indifferent to suffering, insensetive to joy, all of life is reduced to the common rubble of banalty. War murder death, all the same to you as (likes and dislikes).. and the daily business of life is a corrupt comedy."

"You're madness, virulent madness, and everything you touch dies with you, but not me."

Change some of the lingo in the film to todays internetspeak and it's all spot on. This is a pretty honest movie, except for the fact that real life conversations aren't so eloquently put and people just blunder on forward destroying themselves and others without quite realizing what is actually happening.

In the end it doesn't seem like a happy ending for Max though, despite his kinda triumphant monologue. He doesn't seem to come to any deeper self knowledge and skulks back to his wife where he knows the same old misery awaits, but at least be spared the insanity of Diana, the lesser of two evils. He always knew he was just renting her ass for a few months anyways. He comes off as a simp with his romanticism, still chasing his mothers love, but he has enough self respect to bail. There's a strong whiff of nihilism with that ending, a sense of hopelessness, like a lot of popular 70's movies. They try to come off as speaking truth to power but their real aim is demoralization. It was also a bait and switch with the Beale. He seemed to have some genuine insights and a hopeful message in his rants at first, but they quickly turn him into buffoon and another shell of a human with no integrity who flips on a dime. When taking the wider context of other films and the hollywood agendas into account it seemed like subtle knock against religion and people who speak out, the whole crazed preacher or conspiracy theorist cliche. So in the end the viewer is left with nothing but cynicism. The illusion of tv or the mundane miserable bullshit of their lives.

Damn, it's almost like the 60's were setting people up with hope with all these "freedom" movements/ideologies and the drugs getting people to let their guard down, the 70's was pulling the rug out from underneath, and the 80's was introducing upbeat hardcore consumerism and narcissism to fill the void and slowly herding the public conciousness to the vapid npc mindsets of today. It's like how trauma based mind control plays out but on some mass psyops scale. That's another story anyway.