When a person is unknown, he is always eager to get more attention, but in the end, he realizes that the plain and simple life is the most precious.
No. 7 Rating: 7.90
Synopsis
Benjamin (Tom Schilling) is a young man without a girlfriend, education, or a serious job. He has been dependent on his grandmother since his parents died.
But in the virtual world, Benjamin is a genius, and he is gifted with computers .
He dreams of being a super hacker like his idol MRX and hacking all systems.
By chance, Benjamin met Mary (Hannah Hertzspron), a girl he had a crush on in middle school .
In order to gain her favor, Benjamin decided to hack into the server of the university to help her steal exam questions.
This backfired. He was close to success, but was caught by patrolling security guards and sentenced to do 50 hours of public welfare work.
However, while doing public welfare work, Benjamin also gained something. He met Max (Elias Mubarik) .
Max's idol is also MRX, and he introduces two other friends , Stephen (Wotan Welk Merlin) and Paul (Antoine Monot Jr.) , to Benjamin.
The four hit it off, and under the leadership of Max, they hacked into a German Nazi organization with great success.
The ecstatic four decided to form an organization, and at the suggestion of Benjamin, the hacker group CLAY was established.
In a short period of time, CLAY has hacked many companies such as securities companies and drug dealers, and has been widely praised in the industry.
But in front of the idol MRX, their actions are regarded as pediatrics, not worth mentioning.
This annoyed Max, and he decided to prove himself to MRX by doing a task that no one else could .
So, they decided to hack into the German intelligence system .
It was an almost impossible task, but CLAY succeeded.
But things took a turn for the worse when Benjamin sent data from the German intelligence system to MRX.
It turned out that MRX was part of a Russian cyber gang , and they discovered a lurking informant from the data they received.
The informant died tragically, and CLAY indirectly became an accomplice. The outside world believed that CLAY betrayed the informant.
The four were terrified because they had become the target of police pursuit.
But things are still turning around. As long as they can find evidence of MRX's crime, they can clear their suspicions.
So, the showdown between top hackers kicked off...
Video Analysis
The rhythm of the film is fast and dizzying, the arrangement of paragraphs is very tight, and the climaxes are repeated, which is very enjoyable to watch. Judging from the content of the story, the theme the director wants to talk about is very clear, and it is repeatedly mentioned in the film through his lines, "Humans are inherently timid and easily deceived, so humans are the biggest security hole in the world."
This is a German film. Germans have always been known for being rigorous and rational. I think what the film is about is the trade-off between human feelings and rules. Why is human beings the biggest security hole in the world?
Before the establishment of the CLAY organization, Max brought Benjamin to a burger shop to demonstrate how to defraud food for free. At that time, he took advantage of the loophole caused by the clerk's desire to calm down as soon as possible. If the clerk took more time to verify, the lie would come naturally. It will be broken without attacking, but what he has to risk is that if Max is telling the truth, things will develop even worse, after all, the loss of two doughnuts is not big. Such a choice is understandable. I believe that people who have worked in the service industry often encounter similar problems. Sometimes it is indeed the customer who is wrong. But for a migrant worker, there is no need to take that risk within the scope of his rights , so it is peaceful. is the first option.
In the operation of hacking into the Nazi organization, they didn't have a chance, but the security guard let in an undocumented person. After all, in the security guard's mind, he was just a part-time worker, and there was no need to go there for a trivial matter. Offending a big man, so he didn't follow the rules, in exchange for the first success of Max's group, this time it was still the human security loophole.
What brought the CLAY organization to a turning point was the operation of hacking into the German intelligence system, and this time it was still using humans. They took advantage of the fact that most women have no resistance to cute things, and used phishing websites to successfully get a pass. I believe that the staff in the German intelligence system have received relevant training, but some people just don't follow the rules and think they are one Little things don't matter, but the fact is that the establishment of rules makes sense .
The most impressive thing is that Benjamin single-handedly hacked into Interpol, and this mission took advantage of human favor. In the presence of professionally trained security guards, Benjamin judged the other to be a father, exploited this weakness, gained sympathy, and once again achieved his goal. This action most directly reflects the contradiction between rules and human feelings. When we encounter such a dilemma, what should we do?
Time and time again, the director used a lot of space to prove his point of view, and at the end he used a reversal to state his point of view again, "Humans only see what they want to see" , as the leader of the Interpol organization People, Hannah was only reinstated by virtue of Benjamin. She naturally didn't want to fall short. The two of them got what they needed, and they were safe. After all, the real threats were MRX and the Russian Internet gangster, and CLAY didn't do it except once. Hannah doesn't need to take the risk of negligence to pursue this matter, so Benjamin is not worried at all, because "she has already found what she hoped to find". So as long as there are people, there is no absolute safety , because human nature is the most elusive.
The establishment of systems and rules has its reasons. In our work, we should restrain ourselves with a rigorous and rational attitude, and do not let us humans become a security loophole that can be easily broken.
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