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engagement
3 films tagged with “engagement”
film · 2010
The Social Network
David Fincher
The Social Network begins with a breakup and a night of work, and the sequence is not incidental — it is the film's thesis stated before the title card. A young programmer, drunk and humiliated, goes back to his room and…
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film · 1998
The Truman Show
Peter Weir
The Truman Show is the first film about a platform product, made a few years before anyone needed the word. The economics are stated plainly and are worth restating because they have become the default arrangement of the…
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film · 1976
Network
Sidney Lumet
Network opens with a firing and ends with an assassination, and everything in between is an experiment in measurement. Howard Beale is dismissed because his ratings have fallen; he announces on air that he will kill hims…
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