QUeast evening at 9.10 pm on Rai Movie airs Anonthriller With Clive Owen and Amanda Seyfried. Set in a world where the total lack of privacy is the epicenter of a crime with rather disturbing outlines, It combines science fiction with the features of yellow. Although it was produced only 7 years ago, the film directed by the specialist of the science fiction genre Andrew Niccol (Gattaca – The door of the universe) shows a thesis on the use of new technologies which, with the gaze of the present, already seems to belong to the last century.
Anonthe plot of the film on Rai Movie
In a not distant future, The world of men is dominated by the totalizing use of augmented reality. From birth to death, Every single citizen is scheduled in a complex database which was implanted in the retina, called “Ether”. Law enforcement officers have complete access To all this which concerns a person and what he sees at any time.
With this rigid check, testimonies, alibis and events can verify in real time. Thanks to this hypertechnologysomewhat invasive, The crimes have practically disappeared. When a series of macabre exception arrives, the normal investigator routine Sal Frieland (Clive Owen) Ties yellow. The detectivesurvived a painful past, must investigate some inexplicable murders who have common traits.
The mysterious killer kills ritually, with always similar ways, leaving behind an invisible signature. How was it possible that the killer has not yet been identified? The murderer has a way to become invisible by manipulating “Ether” and obscuring his data. Only the last moments of life of the victims remain in Frieland, whose death is literally seen by his own eyes.
Clive Owen in “Anon” (Netflix)
Anon: Ether, Frieland and the killer
In a society where privacy has completely disappeared for the higher good of the community, there is someone who has managed to escape and literally become an anonymous subject. During a reconnaissance tour in the streets of the city with a thousand shades of gray and blue, Frieland Check the information of all passers -by you meet with a simple look.
In his journey, he crosses a girl (Amanda Seyfried): The anomalous error signal from the database aroused its interest. Just like the killer, the young woman is completely without identity. Thus he begins to follow her, convinced that there is a link between the fascinating unknown and the long trail of crimes. The mission of the detective becomes increasingly dangerous. In order to capture the criminal, Frieland will become his voluntary target.
Anonthe review
The director and screenwriter Andrew Niccol explorerin his own way, all the implications from the pervasiveness of technology and the hyper connection. The same that, by making himself the security of the security of each individual, at the same time denies all forms of free expression and arbitrariness.
Although it is presented with the suggestive use of the subjectivefor a total immersion in Frieland’s investigator, the concept is without novelty and real interest. In the current explosion of artificial intelligence and biometric data as routine factor, the viewer’s eye detects his present and no questions about the possible future. Paradoxically, To work and make history much more intriguing is the structured part with all the canons of the noir genre. A killer who kills exactly like a hacker, violating IT systems.
A detective, victim of his own technological power, which chases him to stop the cruel plan. The pretext of data manipulation and the ambiguous use as powerful of information It becomes a pleasant but harmless background of the killer hunt.
Amanda Seyfried in “Anon” (Netflix)
The cast and meaning of the film
Anonfrom the intuitive meaning of “Anonymous”emphasizes anonymity as a collective resource and not dispersion in a multitude. Does the killer really kill people or do you free them from a videogame universe? Between ethical, philosophical and religious shades (“Ether” is almost a spiritual entity) It instilves the doubt that a creation of man, in the long distance, can replace it until it makes it a passive spectator of one’s life. The director defined his film “Cambridge Analytics under the effect of Crack”.
Frieland’s work is close to inertia. The database does everything a detective should do, solving cases even before there are. Maybe it’s for this reason that The always good Clive Owen (Inside Men) here appears without expressiveness And with a look always resigned.
A mask suitable for noir but which makes it planted, without any emotion. To give a discreet liveliness to this science fiction yellow from psychological implications Amanda Seyfried thinks about it. Its role, rigorously without name and without its natural blonde, is the most interesting part within an anonymous cast as the killer to whom they hunt.
The actress of Oh mama! And The Dropout will soon be in the cinema with The Housemaid, Taken from the novel of the same name by Freida McFaddden. In the cast, another blonde star, Sydney Sweeney.
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