Take Away from the Film ‘Network’

Take away from ‘Network’ a 1976 satirical movie directed by Sydney Lumet where Peter Finch an anchor of a TV channel after publicly publicizing his suicide, goes ‘live’ on the same TV channel and announces the following:

“Good evening. Today is Wednesday, September the 24th...

...and this is my last broadcast.

Yesterday I announced on this program that I was going to commit public suicide.

Admittedly an act of madness.

Well, I'll tell you what happened.

I just ran out of bullshit.

Bullshit is all the reasons we give for living.

If we can't think up any reasons of our own, we have the God bullshit.

--through all this pointless pain, humiliation and decay...

...so there better be someone who does know.

That's the God bullshit.

Man is a noble creature that can order his own world.

Who needs God?

If there's anybody out there... ...that can look around this

slaughterhouse of a world we live in... ...and tell me that man

is a noble creature... ...believe me, that man is full of bullshit.

And I was married for 33 years of shrill, shrieking fraud.

So I don't have any bullshit left.

I just ran out of it, you see.”