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Badgertg
Jun 18, 2012Badgertg rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This movie provides a terrifyingly accurate depiction of everything wrong with society and the media... which is ironic, because it also stands as an example of how brilliant, funny and insightful motion pictures (usually one of the most maliciously anti-intellectual forms of media) can actually be. Paddy Chayefsky's script is, I think, the most perfect script ever written in film history, bar none. ALL the performances are the stuff of legend; from the three stars--Finch's bombastic, messianic nutcase, Dunaway's amoral, soulless executive and Holden's desperate, decent voice of reason--all the way down to the bit players (Straight and Beatty, in particular, use their severely limited screentime to work miracles).