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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Mystery Edition - Media or Technology Mysteries
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Third Mystery Edition. I'm going for the most recent ones that I like.
Kimi (2022)
A tech worker finds evidence of a crime in a work file. I really enjoyed this. I came in knowing very little of what it was about because the synopsis I had read was quite vague. Basically a woman, Angela, works for a company that runs a virtual assistant service called Kimi which is something like Alexa and Siri. She gets the failed commands audio files where Kimi doesn't understand the garbled commands or sometimes because as a computer Kimi just doesn't understand the context the user is using. So Angela is tasked to make sense of these failed commands and program Kimi to be able to read such commands better in the future. Then one day she gets a very unintelligible audio file where it seemed to be picking up the sounds of a crime occurring in the background and so she goes on a quest to find out which user's file it was and try to get help. Anyway, the premise is so interesting and I found it to be a pretty good thriller that feels very current. Also one of the characters in the movie actually references a real life case where the police wanted to use an Alexa recording as evidence in an investigation.
Upgrade (2018)
Set
in a tech obsessed near-future, Grey a mechanic who becomes a
quadriplegic after an attack that also killed his wife, is offered a
secret unapproved experimental operation where he receives a chip
implant that allows him to regain his mobility. Disappointed that the
police investigation of the attack that killed his wife hasn't gotten
anywhere, now secretly mobile, he begins his own investigation. I've picked this a few times before and it's here again because it is such a good sci-fi thriller that is very techy.Searching (2018)
When his daughter goes missing, a father desperately goes through her laptop tracing her digital footprints to find her. I thought I had picked this at least once before, but apparently not. I really like Searching. It's a very good suspenseful thriller which does a great job of presenting the apps, websites, messages, etc on the screen as it tells the mystery of what happened to the girl.
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Kimi and Upgrade are great choices! Didn't even think of those.
ReplyDeleteI almost forgot about Kimi myself.
DeleteI don't know any of these. The first one sounds confusing but that's my old brain on overload. The other 2 sound quite compelling
ReplyDeleteKimi - well I probably didn't do a good summary. If you are somewhat familiar with services such Siri and Alexa...well one can only imagine the kinda stuff that probably gets recorded and heard by their staff. That's the basic premise the movie builds on, that one of their staff hears a crime occurring.
DeleteI really want to watch Kimi - the story sounds so good
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