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Uncertainty (2008) is a Hollywood 'time loop' genre movie with a 'geolocation', 'mobile phone' and 'hunted by mafia' genre subplots masqueraded as an indie crime drama thriller film written, produced, and directed by U.S. independent filmmakers Scott McGehee and David Siegel and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Lynn Collins. It was first released at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival. |
Plot Bobby (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and Kate (Lynn Collins) are a young couple who have been together ten months. Kate is 11 weeks pregnant. They can't make up their minds where to go on the Fourth of July, or whether to have the baby, so they decide to flip a coin. After Bobby flips the coin, they both run off Brooklyn Bridge in opposite directions. From that moment on two separate storylines are followed. One storyline takes place in Brooklyn, where Bobby and Kate decide to go visit Kate's family. On the way they pick up a stray dog, whose owner they try to locate. Kate's family has its share of family drama, with an uncle who is institutionalized and suffers from memory loss, a brother who died five years earlier, and a sister who is taking a year off before going to college, much to her mother's dismay. The other storyline takes place in Manhattan (beginning in Chinatown), where Bobby and Kate find a cellphone belonging to a criminal who values it at $500,000. They try to set up an exchange, but after narrowly escaping pursuit from a killer, Bobby throws the cellphone onto a passing boat. Both storylines end the next day on a bridge, with the lines "What do you want to do now? / What do we do now? I don't know. I guess we just keep going". |
Transcript Uncertainty (2008) 451 00:21:10,330 --> 00:21:11,820 - What the f∪⊂₭ just happened? - You okay? 452-453 00:21:11,930 --> 00:21:14,630 - How did he find us in Union Square? We were only there for two minutes. 454 00:21:14,730 --> 00:21:15,670 - Are you okay? - I'm okay. 455 00:21:15,770 --> 00:21:17,070 How did that happen? - I don't know. 456-457 00:21:17,170 --> 00:21:19,600 He has my cell phone number. That means he could have my address. 458-460 00:21:19,700 --> 00:21:24,610 - He has your cell phone because you left your name and number on those phones or the two answering machines or whatever. ___ 612-613 00:28:09,450 --> 00:28:14,490 A guy who'd pay half a million dollars for a phone, works for the lottery commission, stealing money. 614 00:28:14,590 --> 00:28:16,380 - So, wait, you think that's what's on the phone? 615-616 00:28:16,490 --> 00:28:21,220 - Whatever information is on the phone that's in my pocket right now is probably being used to— 617 00:28:21,330 --> 00:28:23,320 - And you think it's this? 618 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:28,760 - We have to get rid of this f∪⊂₭in' thing. ___ 654-656 00:30:25,180 --> 00:30:29,990 You could talk to him through e-mail. You set up an e-mail account. You get him the new address. 657-658 00:30:30,090 --> 00:30:33,210 - But then you'd have to call him to give him the e-mail, and he could still track us. 659-662 00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:38,330 - That's true, we would have to turn on the phone for, like, a second. Turn it on, get him the address, and turn it right back off. 663 00:30:38,430 --> 00:30:42,330 - So how would they not track us? 664 00:30:42,430 --> 00:30:44,030 - Well, you could do it while we were moving. 665-666 00:30:44,140 --> 00:30:47,800 - You know, we get on a bus, send him a text, turn it on, turn it off. ___ 986 00:47:07,380 --> 00:47:08,980 - How the f∪⊂₭ did they find us? 987 00:47:09,090 --> 00:47:11,180 - I don't know. 988-990 00:47:11,290 --> 00:47:17,060 You can't trace an e-mail account that fast. It was probably the credit card. Paid for the internet with my credit card. |
Analysis • The next level in the totalitarian surveillance state for the dummy (or newly born): geolocation will be made whether the mobile device is switched on or not. All Internet cafe connections will be geolocated, with credit card or not. • Storing one's personal incriminating data on a mobile phone without the authorities or the gangsters being aware of the content is revealing of one's obvious gross naivety. • Be warned, both the police and the law abiding gang members are working hand in gloves. Whenever a mobile phone is connected it is geolocated by the cellular network, the former will keep the later informed. • As the two amateurs discovered at the end of the movie, it is by throwing away the mobile phone on the deck of a passing boat that they finally managed to escape the cellular network's tracking. • Traced by the credit card payment for the internet cafe service. And this is only a foretaste of the coming cashless society and digital payment only, that will push the digital identification and tracking of every individuals to the next level of totalitarianism. |
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Ghost in the Machine (1993) is a Hollywood 'digital simulation of human brain' genre movie with a 'digital doppelganger', 'crime perpetrated through digital network', 'serial killer', 'hacker', 'computer genius', 'computer virus', 'particle accelerator', and 'microwave weapon' genre subplots masqueraded as a science fiction horror film directed by Rachel Talalay and released by 20th Century Fox about a deceased serial killer that continues his killing spree through the global computer network. |
Plot While working at a computer store in Cleveland, Ohio, serial killer Karl Hochman (Ted Marcoux), known as "The Address Book Killer" due to his habit of stealing address books and choosing his victims from them, obtains Terry Munroe's (Karen Allen) address book, who is being demonstrated the use of a page scanner by the store manager, copying a page of her address book into a computer, allowing Karl access to it. On a rainy night while heading home, Karl hurriedly drives into an oncoming lane and swerves to miss a truck. This causes his car to go off the road into a cemetery, all while he laughs like a maniac. In the emergency room, he is put into an MRI machine. A surge from an electrical storm causes the transfer of his digital brain scan into the computer network. The biological Karl dies in the MRI scanner. Now, becoming a network-based digital simulation entity, Karl continues to plot his killing spree using various objects connected to the electrical grid and computer networks. Karl opens the scanned page from Terry's address book and begins to kill everyone listed on the page. Her boss, Frank Mallory (Richard McKenzie), becomes the first victim when his microwave oven begins radiating the entire kitchen. Another friend, Elliot Miller (Jack Laufer), gets burned to death when a hand dryer turns into a flamethrower. Later on, babysitter Carol Maibaum (Shevonne Durkin) is hired to look after Terry's son, Josh (Wil Horneff), and his best friend, Frazier (Brandon Adams). However, Carol becomes the third victim; she is electrocuted from an exposed electrical cord on the kitchen floor when the dishwasher explodes and floods the kitchen. The police do not believe the theory that Karl is on a killing spree after his death, but Josh realizes the order of the killings parallels a list of contacts from Terry's address book. Terry, along with noted computer hacker Bram Walker (Chris Mulkey), unplugs everything in her house. |
Transcript Ghost in the Machine (1993) 608-611 01:04:40,089 --> 01:04:51,308 That's the hospital they took the killer to the night he died. They probably run their big machines off our memory... MRI's, CAT scans. The killer died in this hospital. And it was plugged into your computer. ___ 634 01:07:42,938 --> 01:07:47,651 You're an outlaw. You're the toughest, smartest hacker alive. 635-640 01:07:47,693 --> 01:08:03,959 Look, Josh. That tax refund stunt... Sure, it felt great being an outlaw...for about a day. But I blew my whole career. See, guys like us, we have to be careful. Sometimes we're too smart for our own good. ___ 733-737 01:17:52,757 --> 01:18:05,353 An MRI makes a record of all the electrical activity in a person's brain...and stores it in a computer. So when that storm caused that electrical surge, it actually shot the killer's scan...out of the hospital computer, straight into Datanet. 738 01:18:05,394 --> 01:18:09,315 You mean there's an exact impression of the killer inside of Datanet's computers? |
▲ Ghost in the Machine (1993) videomancy: spurious but pertinent 'microwave death' genre subplot. 
▲ Ghost in the Machine (1993) videomancy: 'brain electrical activity scan' and 'particle accelerator' genre subplots. |
Analysis • Quote: 'Only the good die young.' • Rare Hollywood depiction of particle accelerator, and even rarer scene of microwave death. • 'An MRI makes a record of all the electrical activity in a person's brain...and stores it in a computer.': no, that is not how MRI works, and it certainly lacks the storage capacity of 2.5 Petabytes. However particle accelerators would fit the bill. |
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Brainstorm (1983) is a Hollywood 'non-invasive brain–computer interface' genre movie with a 'mind-reading', 'militarism' and 'brainwashing' genre subplots masqueraded as a science fiction film directed by Douglas Trumbull, and starring Christopher Walken, Natalie Wood (in her final film role), Louise Fletcher, and Cliff Robertson. It follows a research team's efforts to perfect a system that directly records and replays the sensory experiences and emotional feelings of a subject, and the efforts by the company's management to exploit the device for military ends. After a researcher records her own death from a heart attack, her colleagues join forces to retrieve the information and play it back. |
Plot Scientists invent a brain–computer interface enabling sensations to be recorded from a person's brain and converted to tape for others to experience. The team includes estranged husband and wife Michael and Karen, as well as Michael's colleague Lillian. At CEO Alex's instruction, the team demonstrates the device to investors to gain financing. Karen dons the recorder while working with Michael and Lillian. When Michael plays the tape back, the group realizes that emotional experiences are also recorded. Michael tapes his memories of times with Karen, which he shares with her, leading to their reconciliation. Lillian is pressured by backers to admit Landan to the team, whom she sees as part of the military-industrial complex. She disagrees with their plan to have the invention developed for military use. One team member, Gordy, has sexual intercourse while wearing the recorder, and shares the tape with colleagues, including Hal. Hal splices one section of the tape into a continuous orgasm, which results in sensory overload, leading to his forced retirement. Tensions increase as the possibilities for abuse become clear. Suffering from heart problems and a constant cigarette smoker, Lillian suffers a heart attack while working alone. Realizing she is about to die, Lillian records her experience. Michael later decides to experience Lillian's recording, but nearly dies when his body simulates a heart attack. Michael modifies his console to filter the physical output and replays the tape. He sees "memory bubbles"—moments from Lillian's life. Michael experiences Lillian's memories of a humorous exchange with Michael as he plays with an industrial robot, a surprise birthday party, and being devastated when Alex tells her that an earlier project is canceled. Scientists wanting to discover the machine's military capabilities are monitoring the equipment as Michael plays Lillian's tape. They have Gordy experience the tape, but Landan ignores the advice of the monitoring staff that Michael made modifications to his terminal. Gordy dies from experiencing Lillian's heart attack. Michael's playback is cut short by Hal, but having witnessed the near-death experience makes Michael curious to see the entire tape. Alex has the recording locked away and tells Michael he will not be allowed to view it. When he returns to work, Michael walks in on Landan and outside technicians going through his research records. Alex responds to his protests by firing Michael and Karen. Michael attempts to hack into the lab's computers. Hal advises him to look under "Project Brainstorm", a program the military created to use their invention for torture and brainwashing. Michael accesses a tape from his den and quickly stops viewing it because of its disturbing nature. Michael and Karen's son Chris inadvertently views the tape, causing him to have a psychotic experience that results in his hospitalization. Alex visits and Michael confronts him about Project Brainstorm, blaming Alex for his son's condition. Alex denies any knowledge of the project, then informs Michael of Gordy's death. Michael vows to destroy his work and enlists the help of Karen and Hal. Michael and Karen head to the Pinehurst Resort, and realizing they are under surveillance, stage a fight that results in Karen leaving for Hal's house. As the two feign reconciliation over the phone, Michael accesses the Brainstorm computer via another phone line while Karen hacks into the system, sabotaging the robots that manufacture the interface terminals. Karen shuts down the security system, locking the staff outside and enabling Michael to load Lillian's tape and experience it uninterrupted. With the plant in chaos, Robert orders Michael's arrest. Karen leaves the house to meet with Michael. Hal and his wife, Wendy, send the last of Karen's commands to the company computers, shutting down the plant. Karen meets with Michael while the tape is playing. Michael bears witness to the afterlife, experiencing a vision of hell, then traveling from Earth and through the universe, even after the tape ends. He ultimately has visions of angels and departed souls flying into a great cosmic Light. Michael then collapses. Karen sobs, believing him dead. She pleads for Michael to stay alive. Awakening from the experience, he weeps with joy and embraces Karen. |
▲ Brainstorm (1983) videomancy: 'brain-computer interface' genre subplot. 
▲ Brainstorm (1983) videomancy: 'MC genius', 'MC brainwashing' and 'MC death experiment' genre subplot. |
Analysis • No brain–computer interface that can both record and replay a person's brain activities can be small enough as to be simply a wearable headset, as depicted in this movie. This is caused by the writers' total ignorance of the basic principle of the science of psychotronics, betraying a lag in the awareness of the U.S. public of more than 50 years. Still stuck in the 1930s and living in the past due to the current censorship of the dystopian world order. Note that following this trend, less than two decades later, the farcical headset would further devolve into an even more ridiculous headplug by 1999 in the Matrix franchise, and setting a sad new standard followed by many other screenwriters over the next 2 decades. In reality such a psychotronic machine can not be a miniaturized wearable device like optical glass and watch, but weights several hundreds of tonnes and have a size of entire buildings. While the space-borne weaponized ones reach the size and mass totaling aircraft carriers, because they are made of an array of V-particle accelerator and particle detector pairs. • Furthermore, a brain–computer interface wearable headset can not cover the entire body: the spine, abdomen and the limbs. • How can a brain–computer interface wearable headset induce any neural firing? It can not. The 3d spatial resolution would also be too low. We are talking here about neurotransmitter size resolution. The device can neither handle the 2.5 PetaBytes storage capacity, nor the Read/Write byte rate of a human brain. • Ridiculous to claim that a small team of scientists alone can develop two ways brain–computer interface in 10 years in a lab. In reality it required the entire resource of a superpower, as a Wonder of the World of the magnitude of the Great Wall, the Terracotta Army, and the Seven Great Voyages To The Western Seas. To this end, historically the entire Manchukuo was turned into a private military zone for the Unit 731. All neuroscientists and doctors of the Empire of Japan were involved in the research along all specialists in the fields of theoretical and applied high energy physics, meteorology, geomagnetism, biology, the theory of matter and cosmology, nuclear scientists, engineers, chemists, etc. Without mentioning the need of a continuous pool of thousands of POWs and other civilian human guinea pigs to be dissected alive... • Everyone knows this was Natalie Wood's last film, and that some of her scenes were filmed after her death with a stand-in you only see from behind. Several scenes hinted at her coming demise: her shocking swimming pool move, the 'go to hell' scene and of course the grand final death recording. |
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Existenz (1999) is a Hollywood 'digital simulation of the world' genre movie with a 'virtual reality', 'video game', 'anti-VR resistance', 'organic weapon' and 'mobile phone tracing' genre subplots masqueraded as a science fiction horror film written, produced and directed by David Cronenberg. The film follows Allegra Geller (Jennifer Jason Leigh), a game designer who finds herself targeted by assassins while playing a virtual reality game of her own creation. An international co-production between Canada, the United Kingdom, and France, it also stars Jude Law, Ian Holm, Don McKellar, Callum Keith Rennie, Sarah Polley, Christopher Eccleston, Willem Dafoe, and Robert A. Silverman. |
Plot In the near-future, biotechnological virtual reality game consoles known as "game pods" have replaced electronic ones. The pods present "UmbyCords" that attach to "bio-ports", connectors surgically inserted into players' spines. Two game companies, Antenna Research and Cortical Systematics, compete against each other. In addition, a group of fanatics called Realists fight both companies to prevent the "deforming" of reality. Antenna Research's Allegra Geller, a world renowned game designer, is demonstrating her latest virtual reality game, eXistenZ, to a focus group. A Realist named Noel Dichter shoots Allegra in the shoulder with an organic pistol he smuggled past security. As the security team guns down Dichter, security guard and publicist Ted Pikul rushes to Geller and escorts her outside. Geller discovers that her pod, which contains the only copy of eXistenZ, may have been damaged. Pikul reluctantly agrees to have a bio-port installed in his spine so they can jointly test the game's integrity. Allegra takes him to a gas station run by a black-marketeer named Gas, who deliberately installs a faulty bio-port. He reveals his intention to kill Geller for the bounty on her head. Pikul kills Gas, and the two escape to a former ski lodge used by Kiri Vinokur, Geller's mentor. Vinokur and his assistant repair the damaged pod and give Pikul a new bio-port. ... Suddenly, Pikul and Geller are seated in chairs in a small abandoned church, seeing rows of pews as they come to, together with all of the other members of the cast, all wearing blue electronic virtual reality devices. Nourish explains that the story was all part of a virtual reality game he designed called transCendenZ. He tells his assistant Merle that he feels uneasy, because the anti-game plot elements may have originated from the thoughts of one of the testers. Pikul and Geller approach Nourish and accuse him of distorting reality, before shooting him and Merle to death. As Pikul and Geller leave, they aim their guns at the person who played the Chinese waiter, who first pleads for his life, then asks if they are still in the game. Pikul and Geller stand together silently, not answering. |
Transcript Existenz (1999) 98 00:11:54,113 --> 00:11:54,947 What's that? 99 00:11:57,698 --> 00:11:58,784 My pink-phone. 100 00:12:03,479 --> 00:12:04,314 Ted Pikul. 101 00:12:05,374 --> 00:12:06,208 What hap... 102 00:12:06,417 --> 00:12:07,251 What? 103 00:12:08,526 --> 00:12:09,346 Hey! 104 00:12:10,546 --> 00:12:11,880 What did you do that for? 105 00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:16,135 - That was our lifeline to civilization. - That was a range-finder. 106 00:12:16,343 --> 00:12:18,350 As long as you have that, they know where we are. |
▲ Existenz (1999) videomancy: 'virtual reality', 'brain–computer interface "bio-ports" connectors' and 'mobile phone tracing' genre subplots. 
▲ Existenz (1999) videomancy: 'virtual reality' and 'brain–computer interface "bio-ports" connectors' genre subplots. |
Analysis • Ted Pikul (Jude Law)'s mobile phone called pink-phone, is thrown away by Allegra Geller (Jennifer Jason Leigh) to escape the tracking by the 'Realists' an anti-VR armed resistance group. This is total disinformation, as mobile phone cellular network works like radars. Indeed, the cellular network's phased array antenna don't even need the presence of any mobile device to trace people. Microwaves penetrate easily walls of buildings and can see the every move of people inside them. Furthermore, any electromagnetic signal in the microwave band can be detected. It is not limited to mobile phones, and even non-wireless compatible device can be monitored, such as hairdryers. The presence of a mobile phone only provides the cellular network with optional additional real-time audio and video feeds. This is the only informations Allegra Geller has blocked from her killers. • How can a brain–computer interface "bio-ports" connectors surgically inserted into players' spines induce any visual, audio or olfactive neural firing? It can not. No brain–computer interface that can both record and replay a person's brain activities can be made of an external biological device wired with connectors surgically inserted into a player's spine, as depicted in this movie. This only reveals the writer's total ignorance of the basic principle of the science of psychotronics, betraying a lag in the awareness of the European public of more than 50 years. Still stuck in the 1930s and living in the past due to the current censorship of the dystopian world order. Note that following this trend, less than two decades later, the farcical headset would further devolve into an even more ridiculous headplug by 1999 in the Matrix franchise, and setting a sad new standard followed by many other screenwriters over the next 2 decades. In reality such a psychotronic machine can not be a miniaturized connected plug-in device like a webcam or optical mouse, but weights several hundreds of tonnes and have a size of entire buildings. While the space-borne weaponized ones reach the size and mass totaling aircraft carriers, because they are made of an array of V-particle accelerator and particle detector pairs. |
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Someone posted a link for born to fly a few weeks ago but now I can't seem to find it. I watched it for about 30 min them got busy.
Bilibili Up, named "家有神兽" has uploaded the third episode of the military micro film WWW3, co produced and filmed by Chinese military fans. The film takes the Sino Indian conflict as the background, and describes the scene of J20 team hunting Indian Air Force A50 and Rafale, which is very exciting and professional. Worth watching.
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