It's quite clever how throughout the whole film, they're also socially engineering/ manipulating the viewer. They show you the bullets right at the beginning, both in the blood, and then in the granny's bedside box. The four sugar cubes become one. The main guy looks (and acts) kind of like Ed Norton the whole time, he has a Fight Club poster on his wall, there are the flashbacks which show him as all characters like in that film, so when the reveal comes you think - ah, i saw that twist coming... only then they double bluff you. Which incidentally, is basically the premise of the 'pregnant horse' - the trojan within a trojan - that they refer to around the middle of the film.
I liked it. It felt way too contrived unfortunately, and the break-ins etc were inconceivable, but it's a lot of fun and there aren't many films depicting this topic which are so polished and well executed.
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Reply by Oculus
on February 18, 2020 at 6:33 AM
A very controversial film. German directors as always surprised. Very pleased with references to the "Fight Club" Chuck Palahniuk. But personally, I did not like that so little attention is paid to the program side of the issue. Not a single one of the real applications was mentioned, but was worth it. The same Utopia p2p that cannot be hacked, for example.
Reply by raytrax
on August 22, 2024 at 2:58 PM
The plot is really a simplified version of Mr Robot.