The Net (1995)

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Movie
German title The network
Original title The Net
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1995
length 109 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Irwin Winkler
script John D. Brancato
Michael Ferris
production Irwin Winkler
Rob Cowan
music Mark Isham
camera Jack N. Green
cut Jimmy Giritlian
Richard Halsey
occupation

Das Netz is an American thriller by Irwin Winkler from 1995 in which a lonely computer expert ( Sandra Bullock ) is robbed of her identity .

action

The software developer Angela Bennett is an isolated person who orders her pizza over the Internet and has little contact with the neighbors. The only social reference person is her mother, who has Alzheimer's disease, but who cannot recognize her daughter because of the disease. Bennett works from home at Cathedral software company, so she only knows her work colleagues over the Internet or over the phone. One day she receives a mysterious floppy disk from her colleague Dale , with the help of which she suddenly finds herself on Internet pages with secret information. Shortly before the agreed meeting, her colleague dies in a plane crash.

A killer is set on her, who ingratiates himself on her, in order to first destroy the disk with the mysterious program. After Angela Bennett escaped the killer - unfortunately without her identification papers - she notices that someone has changed her personal electronic data and her identity and possibly. a. has added some offenses, such as a drug offense, to the criminal record of the changed identity. This turns their life into a nightmare as no one can testify to their true identity. With a false identity entered by the killer in all sorts of computer databases, she is finally hunted down by the police.

Even the only person she trusts, her former psychologist and lover, is killed by the killer with manipulated health data and the resulting wrong treatment by doctors. She finally finds out that the mysterious program is a Trojan horse disguised as a protection program , which a group of hackers called “ Praetorians ” can use to gain access to important computer networks. It is the same group that is gradually attacking important computer networks without being recognized in order to subsequently sell its supposed protection program to the attacked companies and authorities as an alleged security solution. The killer also uses this program against the protagonist.

In the meantime she has been replaced by a double at work. Ultimately, Angela Bennett succeeds in collecting evidence against the provider of the “protection program”, an entrepreneur named Jeff Gregg, and against the Praetorians, and then e-mailing it to the FBI . Then she is pursued further by the killer and her doppelganger, whereby the killer accidentally shoots the doppelganger and he himself is attacked by Angela with a fire extinguisher and falls into the depths.

Jeff Gregg can now be proven the connection to the hackers and he is arrested, Angela Bennett can go back to her old life. In the final scene, she takes care of her mother who has Alzheimer's disease.

Reviews

The film received mostly negative reviews, earning a 36% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 47 reviews and a Metascore of 51 on Metacritic based on 22 reviews.

film-dienst September 26, 1995: “The thematically attractive hi-tech thriller builds on action-packed entanglements instead of exploring the tense psychological situation. Targeted effects speculatively increase the fascination of the data world without seriously looking at its problematic sides. "

Cinema 10/1995: “Similar to 'While you were sleeping ...', 'Das Netz' is ultimately a well-played one-woman show by Hollywood shooting star Sandra Bullock. As such, however, Winkler's thriller reveals its most glaring weak point in the first scenes: The fascination of the Internet or not - who believes a woman like Sandra that she spends her evenings alone with a pizza on the home computer? "

Awards

Sandra Bullock was nominated for the MTV Movie Award in 1996.

backgrounds

In this film, Sandra Bullock is not dubbed by her standard German voice Bettina Weiß , but by Michaela Geuer .

From 1998 to 1999 there was an American television series entitled The Net - Internet Death Trap , which was based on the film. In 2006 the film Das Netz 2.0 was released directly on DVD, but it is not a direct sequel, but rather a remake.

Trivia

The scenes at the fictional Pan-Pacific Computer Convention towards the end of the film (which were even advertised by posters in Cathedral Software's offices) were filmed during a real computer fair, Macworld in January 1995 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. The event was redecorated for a few hours for the shooting.

IP address from the network

Some of the IP addresses shown in the film do not correspond to the IPv4 standard . Also domains such as "FBI / DEPT_OF_JUSTICE" do not meet the standards.

At one point Angela Bennett escapes Jack Devlin on a merry-go-round. The scene is based on the carousel scene from Hitchcock's " The Stranger on the Train ".

Early in the film and during the credits, the song A Whiter Shade of Pale can be heard in a cover version by Annie Lennox .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The network at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
  2. ↑ The network at Metacritic (English)
  3. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113957/locations