Anon (2018)
Set in a near-future world where there is no privacy, ignorance or anonymity, our private memories are recorded and crime almost ceases to exist. In trying to solve a series of unsolved murders, Sal Frieland stumbles onto a young woman who appears to have subverted the system and disappeared. She has no identity, no history and no record. Sal realizes it may not be the end of crime but the beginning. Known only as 'The Girl', Sal must find her before he becomes the next victim.
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Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.
Great visuals, story delivers no surprises
A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.
This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
The story plays out as modern day discount Ayn Rand with predictable plot, pretentious monologues and flat characters. The one redeeming factor is the filmography - it's an absolutely gorgeous movie. It's a real shame the script feels like it was written by an anon from 4chan.
This movie has totally unessesary.. And very graphic sex scenes that could have been avoided all together. Totally ruined the movie. Ok the guy chose to have sex with a prostitute as an excuse to draw out a hacker. As if that wasnt a terrible enough tactic, they have to go and show the bordering on hard core porn scene of how he played it out. They could have atleast merely suggested it, but now we have to endure this scene which he thinks back on again latet in the movie where the whole thing repeats again just to refresh our memories. Later you find that the hacker just so happens to be a woman, and guess what? They end up having sex in yet another very graphic scene. Sorry this is not a movie
Having recently rewatched the amazing Children of Men, I wondered what had happened to the talented and charming star. Unfortunately, one answer is this flat and unconvincing made on-the cheap science fiction film. It's clever enough, as to be expected from Andrew Niccol - but he too is a long way from The Truman Show and Gattaca.
Anon features a world similar to ours, where personal information has become commodified, and everyone has an internet lens in their eyes, as well as processors in their mind, like the anime Ghost in the Shell. As technology becomes more and more advanced, it's hard not to believe that at some point tech won't merge with the human body in some way that seems scary to those of us who grew up before the internet. Anon features a great concept of hackers being able to manipulate people's personal tech, again, much like Ghost in the Shell, and commit various crimes by making themselves blind from the views of others. The way the technology and world is presented is very skillful, without tons of exposition, just allowing you the viewer to learn about the world shown in the way a movie should educate the viewer: by showing and not telling. Thankfully, there's no scene where some technician explains how the eye-lens and brain-tech works. Nobody in that world would look that up, how often do you look up how your microwave works? Do you even really know how it does, to an intimate level? Most sci-fi makes the mistake of having the characters explain things too much for the benefit of the audience in un-natural conversations. Anon's actual mystery component isn't stunning or extremely astounding, but it's worth a watch for the great performances, and how the future-tech intelligently figures into the story, and how it's presented. A solid watch.