When the credits started to roll at the end of the movie of Network, i was very upset with the ending. I don't really know how i expected it to end but the ending diffidently caught me by surprise. Faye Dunaway who had the leading lady roll was, i must say, i complete bitch. However I do believe that Howard's character was amazing. He had a beautiful personality which lit up the screen with each take. Yet it was almost expected that his character would die from the beginning. Each characters endings were almost predicted ahead of time. You knew from the first time Max and Diana were in the same room that there relationship was going to end in disaster. You knew that the CEOS and TV writers jobs were at risk and they would end up doing anything drastic. After Howard was fired you knew that his life was slowly going in a downward spiral and would end in death. Yet you kept hoping, like in all of the movie scripts that there would be a happy ending.
Like most people who watch TV shows we know that the movie will start somewhat happy, have a tragic accident, and end in happy bliss. So when we watched a movie that started sad, had several tragic accidents, a love affair, no happy parts, and a death. For many of us, or maybe just me, it pissed me off. I love happy endings like any Disney baby would, so I wanted to protest during class and ask to see the REAL ending.
Yet i did not because i knew that this was the real ending. Not every story concludes with "they lived happily ever after." So i will leave the story with its crappy ending and tragedy so that, for others, they can enjoy it. For many this end was probably very suitable and likable, but i was not one of them.
I am as Howard said, attached to the tube and believe that happy endings do happen. Silly me...
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