I have never thought about privacy from this perspective. I grew up in China, was walled, supervised, articles were deleted, and content was reviewed. After getting used to it, the absence of privacy does not seem to bother me. But the speech at the beginning of the documentary really scared me. From your credit card records, call records, and consumption records, you pieced together all the data elements of a person, and then you were violated, suspected, and helpless. Violating someone's privacy should not be so easy. At one point I thought I should use cash. But this is useless. This fundamentally cannot solve the problem. The problem is that the government is secretly centralizing power and controlling everyone with the will of the people. The line between social stability and personal privacy violations is always fuzzy. Who should define the so-called "social instability factors". This issue has been discussed, but no matter what the outcome of the discussion is, it is now the government taking over. With all rights, a person may disappear in daylight. 1.2 million people on the watch list. It's scary to think about it.
Let's talk about the narrative rhythm. The beginning of the film creates suspense. The first half of the film is mainly ES, and the ES values are used to bring the topic back to the main issues to be discussed in the film. Although the starting point is only Inform, this film does play the role of Educate.
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