"Anonymous"-a visual feast for privacy

Adrianna 2022-01-10 08:01:58

Hello everyone, I am Long Taoxia.

Today we are talking about a sci-fi suspense film starring Cliff Owen and Amanda Seyfried-"Anonymous".

The background of the film is a highly technologically advanced future society. There are no weird buildings and dazzling tools. The "high-tech" is only embodied in a set of "Ethernet System" dominated by the government in the name of security.

This system is an intelligent neural processing network that records the reality information seen by human vision and allows people's consciousness to control all behaviors in life.

It allows you to make video calls with others without using your mobile phone; it allows you to navigate in real time while driving; it allows you to complete payment; it allows you to share information with others, etc. All you can think of in life and work Things.

In layman's terms, it can be understood as a supercomputer installed in your brain, and your eyes are the recorder + monitor.

The male protagonist is a police detective in the official supervision agency of this guardian system. He has some high-level permissions, such as real-time access to other people's visual records.

The heroine is a hacker who deletes visual information for others.

The story begins with a series of homicides. The dead were shot headshots after being hacked into the optic nerve.

The male protagonist found that all the evidence points to the female protagonist after a disguised investigation, but the female protagonist is not the real murderer...

The film's narrative process is very plain. Although there is a plot reversal, the final climax is too hasty, and there are some problems in the plot logic.

There are many large-scale shots in the movie, and the heroine Amanda Seyfried also went into battle in a vacuum. (Speaking of those who don’t have a body!!!)

From an artistic point of view, this kind of pure nakedness highlights that the human desire in the film is not scrupulous because of the existence of the "ether system", but is even more unscrupulous.

From the perspective of the plot, it is precisely because human desires cannot be restrained, and these are extremely private behaviors, which also increase the depth of the theme of the film, that is, everyone has a secret to hide, no matter how noble or humble, this is human nature .

Simply cutting in from the experience of watching the movie, these "you know" images are also a powerful motivation for you to watch the whole movie...

The style of this movie is very cold, like a house decorated in black and gray tones. It fits the highly technologically advanced social background of the movie-the loneliness behind the gorgeousness and glamour.

The gap between people is getting farther and farther, and this in itself is an excellent habitat for "secrets".

If it is human nature to hide secrets, then why not prying secrets?

It's just that when the latter becomes reasonable and even driven by technology, then is society progressing or regressing?

It is a good film that is thought-provoking. This "Anonymous" is worth watching.

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Anon quotes

  • Title Card: I give the fight up, let there be an end. A privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God. -Robert Browning, Paracelsus, 1835

  • Josef Kenik: I don't care the victims no longer exist. I care that she doesn't. In my mind, she's murdered herself.

    Sal Frieland: Oh, I see. Taking a life, that's not important. Her not having one, that is?

    Josef Kenik: Yes. Now you understand.

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