I Watch Films: Anon
In the near future everything you see is recorded in the Ether and can be played back. Also vast amounts of meta-data can be seen – too much to read as it happens. This makes Clive Owen’s detective’s job very easy as he can just watch what happened through the eyes of the people committing crimes.
Or it was easy until there are some weird murders where the killer hacks the view of the victim so we see the murder from the point of view of an anonymous person holding a gun and shooting them before they figure out what has happened to their vision. As he gets too close Owen’s character keeps having his vision changed so he “cannot believe his eyes”.
Anyway, enter Amanda Siegfried’s character who hides herself and erases life records for people (also covering them). As might be expected for a film about privacy and voyeurism there’s a fair amount of shagging, and also many scenes of sitting in a room watching people in other rooms do things. No one goes to the toilet however.
Watch This: For a stylish intelligent thriller also with scenes of second person shooting*
Don’t Watch This: For a dull looking set of murders with a sparse cast that makes the solution to the murder-mystery fairly obvious and has no real answers to the questions it investigates.
*In video game terms a First Person Shooter (FPS) is where the screen in the view of the character shooting; a Third Person Shooter has the character on screen**. A Second Person Shooter would be one from the viewpoint of the one being shot at by the player.
** From parts of speech: First Person, I watched Anon; Second Person, you watched Anon; Third Person, he or she watched Anon.
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