"The sheer number of films released each year guarantees that some of them will appear to predict certain aspects of the future, but while Blade Runner (1982) foresaw digital billboards and Minority Report (2002) envisioned advertising targeted directly at individuals, other predictions reach beyond technology and consumer products. Network (1976) is probably the most often mentioned on that count as it forecast the rise of profit-oriented, yellow journalism, but Elia Kazan’s A Face In the Crowd (1957) deserves a similar recognition and respect. It not only anticipated the power television would have in influencing the public’s response to entertainment personalities and politicians but as mentioned in think pieces several times over the past few years, it also captures the rise and fall of someone like presidential candidate Donald Trump. Well, it predicted his rise anyway — the prophecy falls apart in its naive belief that the American people would turn their collective back on the man once his true face was revealed."