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primary suspect. Sal goes undercover, creating a false history as a stockbroker who engages in a brief affair with a prostitute. Using this as the pretext for her services, he makes contact with the woman - who uses the handle 'Anon' - and asks to have his encounter with the prostitute deleted. With his team on standby in the adjacent apartment, the initial plan to apprehend Anon fails when she successfully covers her tracks.
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At work, Sal is handed several homicide cases where the victims' own visual records of their deaths are replaced with the killer's point of view, thus hiding the killer's identity. At another murder scene, Sal chases the apparent killer only to nearly be killed when they hack his implant and change what he sees in real time.
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anyone who had sex with her out of jealousy and erased every trace of her, even peoples' memories. During a physical altercation between Cyrus and Anon, Sal draws his weapon but realizes that Cyrus is seeing what he sees in real-time. To defeat this advantage, Sal fires blindly towards Cyrus, successfully killing him.
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It is discovered that all the victims hired someone with the expertise to delete pieces of their visual records that were either humiliating or incriminating. The detectives determine that the unknown woman Sal encountered earlier has the ability to manipulate the system in this way, making her their
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Sal Friedland, a detective with the metropolitan police force, crosses paths with a young woman who appears to trigger a glitch in his ocular implant, as no data about her is retrieved. When he reviews his own record of that day, he finds that every single frame of her has been mysteriously deleted.
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Anon leaves, later revealing to Sal that she is able to bypass the vast surveillance network by disseminating her records in microsecond slices throughout everyone else in the network, rendering her untraceable. When Sal asks her why she is so desperate to hide her identity, she tells him that her
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Despite being under house arrest, Sal tracks Anon to her apartment and tells her that she is being investigated for multiple murders. She reveals that she already knows this and that she is being framed by another hacker with a similar skillset. Anon shows Sal her video record of the second sting
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Believing Sal has become too personally involved, his superiors suspend him from active duty. The actual killer attempts to murder him in his apartment, revealing himself to be Cyrus, one of the technical experts from the police department. Cyrus has been obsessed with Anon for years; he killed
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Sal and Anon develop a personal relationship. She discovers Sal's true identity and flees, apparently killing one of Sal’s colleagues in the process. Anon begins to harass Sal for his betrayal, tormenting him with his worst memories, deleting his memories of his dead son, and causing further
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gave the film a "B" grade, saying: "While the film's final thesis is a Facebook post with typos at best (delete your accounts, and so on), Niccol is still terrific when he's breaking down rules, questioning protocol, and testing new ideas." James Dyer of
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appearing in supporting roles. Set in a futuristic world where privacy and anonymity no longer exist, the plot follows a troubled detective (Owen) who comes across a young woman (Seyfried) who has evaded the government's transparency system.
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to the user with information about anyone and anything they may see, as well as recording the user's view. Investigations into crimes amount to detectives reviewing video and assessing whether an alleged perpetrator is innocent or guilty.
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gave the film 2 stars out of 5, saying: "The impact of the action is lost because we can't be sure of the status of what appears to be happening, and there is something a little bit boring about the conundrum." Stephen Dalton of
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In the near future, humanity lives in a technologically advanced, dystopian society. The government requires that everyone receive an ocular implant that records everything they see. The implant provides an
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hallucinations. His superiors confront him after his neighbor turns up dead with a bullet from Sal's gun in him; they reject his explanation and order him off the case.
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wrote, "Niccol's paranoid anxieties about the totalitarian dangers of cyberspace feel oddly glib and dated, light on thrills or narrative logic." Blake Goble of
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can be as much fun as listening to someone explain every single rule of a board game, when all you want is to just start playing." Peter Bradshaw of
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on the film began in early September 2016 in New York City, while other scenes were shot in Toronto, with many shots being filmed at the
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operation, in which his colleague was killed, seeming to prove that she is innocent. After showing Sal her records, she flees again.
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gave the film 3 stars out of 5, saying: "With a story that serves mainly as delivery mechanism for its message this is no
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is not because she has something to hide, but merely because she does not want to share herself with the world.
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came on board to star in the film, playing a woman with no digital footprint who is invisible to the police.
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was cast in the film to play the role of a detective in a world without privacy. On 8 March 2016,
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on 4 May 2018. In the United Kingdom and Ireland, the film was released theatrically by
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The film was released in the United States, Canada and other territories on
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was released in the United States, Canada and other territories on
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lives down to its title in the most glumly predictable ways."
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Andrew Niccol
Clive Owen
Amanda Seyfried
Colm Feore
Mark O'Brien
Sonya Walger
Joe Pingue
Iddo Goldberg
Amir Mokri
Álex Rodríguez
Christophe Beck
Sierra/Affinity
Scythia Films Inc.
Netflix
science fiction
thriller film
Andrew Niccol
Clive Owen
Amanda Seyfried
Colm Feore
Mark O'Brien
Sonya Walger
Joe Pingue
Iddo Goldberg
Netflix
augmented-reality
head-up display
anonymity
Clive Owen

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