Anon (film)
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| German title | Anon |
| Original title | Anon |
| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2018 |
| length | 100 minutes |
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| Director | Andrew Niccol |
| script | Andrew Niccol |
| production | Daniel Baur, Andrew Niccol, Oliver Simon, Oda Schaefer |
| music | Christophe Beck |
| camera | Amir Mokri |
| cut | Álex Rodríguez |
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Anon is a British science fiction - thriller from the year 2018 by Andrew Niccol with Clive Owen and Amanda Seyfried . In a futuristic world where privacy and anonymity no longer exist, the police investigator Sal Frieland comes across a mysterious young woman who has eluded society's digital surveillance system. The film was released on May 4, 2018 by the streaming service Netflix .
action
In a modern world, advanced Biosyn implants, the so-called "Minds Eyes", continuously and relentlessly record the visual information of every human being through a constant flow of information, thus preventing privacy and anonymity as we know it. The recorded data and visual memories of everyone are uploaded to a huge database called "The Ether" and used by law enforcement agencies to fight crime.
The Police Detective 1st Class Sal Frieland is - like his colleagues - able to display the records of every person from "The Ether" due to his service. In addition, the police officers see all of the personal information of the person they are focusing on.
While walking through the city, he noticed a woman, when she saw her, the system reported errors and no further information was available. That is unusual and Frieland is unsettled. In the police headquarters, Frieland is working on various crimes and is suddenly confronted with a case in which the system reports an anomaly to him. While inspecting the crime scene, he and his colleague Charles Gattis noticed that the murdered man was shot in the forehead. It is strange, as one can see in the last records of the dead man from "The Ether", that the murderer hacked into the victim's mind's eye in order to hide himself. So one cannot identify the murderer from the victim's records. The police officers also find that the perpetrator himself did not leave any so-called meta-trail that could have been used to identify him.
Gattis reports to Frieland that there has already been a similar murder. The last visitor to the victim was female. The identity has been deleted. Frieland then reports on the mysterious woman he had seen and sends Gattis the corresponding recording.
The next day, colleague Lester Hagen explains to the investigation team that the records of the victims from "The Ether" were manipulated. Illegal or embarrassing activities of the victims were deleted and replaced with other parts of the recording, as it were by a professional hacker. Frieland and Gattis realize that their records of the previous day's findings have been deleted. The moment when Frieland saw the mysterious woman has also disappeared. All records of the people who were also in this place at that time have been modified. The woman and the records or visual memories of her are gone. The police assume that she is the perpetrator.
One evening Frieland is called to commit a double murder. In this case too, the victims' records have been tampered with. Frieland pursues the alleged perpetrator when he hears suspicious noises in the house of the crime scene. In the subway he stops close to the platform in front of a train and watches the people inside who, strangely enough, act completely indifferent even though he points his gun at them. Suddenly he is thrown onto the platform when an incoming subway rushes past him. Frieland realizes that the stationary subway train was hacked into his mind's eye and, in fact, wasn't there.
Frieland offers himself as bait and plays a stockbroker who receives an alleged compromising visit from a prostitute in his apartment. He contacts a relevant forum and asks various hackers for help to delete this recording. Finally, the unknown woman he was looking for called Anon contacted him. The two meet somewhere in town and then go to Frieland's apartment. Frieland's colleague Hagen sits in the neighboring apartment in order to be able to intervene at any time and to keep track of the hacker's proxies. Anon assures Frieland that she only looks at what Frieland wants to show her voluntarily. So she doesn't know that he's really a police officer. She deletes the records of the prostitute's visit from the "Ether". She receives her payment, suddenly points a pistol at Frieland and informs him that she has deleted all records about her from the "Ether". Then she disappears.
At the police headquarters, Frieland is introduced to the CT unit's technical specialist, Cyrus Frear, who has been selected and recommended by Commissioner Josef Kenik. Frear hacks into Anon's proxies with Hagen's information and sees her apartment through their eyes. The police evaluate the woman's visual impressions in order to obtain an indication of where she is currently. They witness how the woman hacked into the records of the art dealer Jesper Nix and made his meeting with an art forger disappear. But suddenly the connection is cut.
Eventually the art dealer is also killed. The pattern is the same as with the other victims.
Frieland continues his undercover mission. He meets with a drug dealer and then contacts Anon again to delete the allegedly illegal activity from the records. He meets with her and she manipulates his records. Eventually they kiss and sleep together. The woman now looks into the past of Frieland's notes and realizes that he is in truth a police officer. She leaves the apartment. Frieland follows her and finds the shot colleague Hagen. After a short time, Anon gets in touch with him. She lets him know that she now knows who he is. She warns him not to look for her.
Frieland leaves the conspiratorial apartment and returns to his own apartment. Anon will get back to him. She watches him through his own eyes. After Frieland's threat that he would stop her, she mirrors threatening events in his mind's eye that appear completely real. Even Frieland's visual memories of his deceased child and those of his ex-wife are lost. With his gun drawn, Frieland steps into the suddenly burning corridor of the apartment building. In his panic, he fires shots into the flames. His neighbor appears and speaks to him. The flames suddenly disappear. When Frieland tries to get into the elevator, he only realizes at the last second that he has been deceived again and almost fell into the elevator shaft. When he finally arrives in his car, he is led to believe that the streets are empty and that there is actually a lot of traffic. Finally, Frieland causes an accident because he was led to believe that there was an empty intersection. Afterwards, Frieland is arrested by his colleagues, as there is a recording after he is said to have shot his neighbor. Frieland is suspended until the investigation is complete. He has to stay in his apartment and is watched around the clock. An officer is posted in front of the house and Cyrus Frear monitors his activities in the Presidium via "Ether".
Frieland lies down on the bed and closes his eyes. His colleagues are fooled into thinking he is asleep. Frieland sneaks out of the house with his eyes closed and reaches the police officer who is sitting in the car in front of the house and knocks him down. Then he goes to Anon's house to finally face them. The woman can make it clear to him that someone else is killing her customers and doing the manipulations in the "ether". She disappears from the apartment. Shortly afterwards, Frieland is arrested by Gattis and Frear. He tries unsuccessfully to make it clear to the two that the woman did not commit the murders. He is brought back to his apartment.
Once at his apartment, Anon contacts him. She distracts the police officers standing in front of the house. When Frieland armed himself and wanted to leave the apartment, he saw in his mind's eye how someone with a drawn pistol is moving towards him. Although he turns around in a flash to fire a shot at the stranger, he is hit by a bullet. Frieland is lying on the floor, his back turned to the incident that now follows. Anon sends him the current visual impressions. Frieland sees the stranger appear in a mirror image with Anon and he recognizes Cyrus Frear, who threatens Anon with a drawn weapon. He picks up his gun and before Frear can shoot him, he kills him and can save Anon. He does nothing when she finally escapes.
The two meet again later. She apologizes to Frieland and explains to him that the only and very dangerous option was to find Frear if he finds Frieland first.
production
Clive Owen was signed on January 28, 2016 for the role of an investigator in a world without crime. On March 8, 2016, Amanda Seyfried was hired for the role of a young woman without a digital identity who is invisible to the police.
Filming of the film began in New York City in early September 2016 . Other locations were in Toronto .
Reviews
Rotten Tomatoes got a 42% approval rating based on 34 reviews and an average rating of 5.4 / 10. On Metacritic, the film received a weighted average score of 54 out of 100 based on 11 reviewers, which is a mixed or average rating .
Web links
- Anon in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
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- ↑ Amanda Seyfried joins Andrew Niccol sci-fi 'Anon' with Clive Owen . In: Screen Daily , Screen International . March 8, 2016, last accessed May 21, 2018.
- ↑ CS: Clive Owen and Amanda Seyfried Photos from the Anon Set . In: ComingSoon.net , CraveOnline Media . September 4, 2016, last accessed May 21, 2018.
- ^ Anon (2018) . In: Rotten Tomatoes . Fandango Media . Retrieved May 21, 2018.
- ^ Anon Reviews . In: Metacritic . CBS Interactive . Retrieved May 21, 2018.