when it come to movie and i do not easily discriminate between crap and pure crap and masterpiece . i believe this movie be an absolute masterpiece and it hard to keep me entertain for more than 90 minute . this movie run slow than mystic river and harry potter 3 combine and i still manage to stay rivet to my seat . for me and it be the passion that eric bogosian put into his performance . it extremely difficult to pull off such a stunt and manage to garner any positive effect from it . bogosian probably nail one of the tough single man performance in modern cinema . i do not have any respect for bogosian until the end of the film . the entire monologue minute before the inexorable climax be the turning point and it be the key that turn me around . this man hit a point so low that he know he could never recover from it . the corporate boy congratulate him on the performance . his blister prose make even the slimy one in the cavalcade shake his head in awe . it make me realize that personal integrity and hypocrisy do not matter in the world of talk radio and even in the corporate world for that matter . stone may have be push some uber liberal agenda but it be the actual movie and production that get my attention . oliver stone be a minor master of the moody . the final third of the film have probably the best lighting and cinematography i have see in any film . stone artfully make the dj booth feel like five by seven cell in a nineteenth century prison . visually speak and it appear that bogosian only friend be the black foam that absorb his routine vitriol . he speak and it doesn not speak back . it a sad metaphor consider the way he treat the people who hand him his success . stone and bogosian carve out a stunning film of a man who be trap in both a prison of wall and a prison of self . this man be confine to his own volition and he can never escape it . the scene that make me realize his conundrum be when he be unwilling to his ex wife back . he prefer his own prison instead of the world on the outside . every story have a conflict and it come down to the simplest of all conflict represent man versus himself . talk radio present this conflict in an intelligent and gripping and and artful fashion . there be no hidden message in this film and the progression of event should be expect by any astute viewer . i just lean back and let my mind be grasp by this film and i love it . it unheralded and unseen and and it will never receive it due recognition . let hope it stay that way because gem deserve to be find and then hide again . it a gem because i find it in the discount dvd bin at my local wal mart store . for $ 5 . 50 and it be worth the half hour i spend dig try to find it . i do and i get more than my money worth . this be one of the best movie ever make and that be worth ten reason alone . ten reason give a score of ten . here end my rant .