Americans are captured on surveillance cameras at least 170 times a day mostly without their knowledge. This produces millions of hours of footage revealing the nature of those hidden secrets.
Holman Jenkins comments on what looks to be a fairly sane new film Look [IMDB].
…Barry Schuler, its co-producer, says he began thinking about the subject (surveillance, not sex) in a previous job, as chief executive of AOL, when subpoenas began arriving for access to member emails. Adam Rifkin, the film’s director and screenwriter (previous projects include “Mousehunt” and “Small Soldiers”), had a similar epiphany: He was nailed by a traffic camera for running a red light.
They were, frankly, lucky to get an R rating for their film, a loose-hanging collection of intersecting plotlines portrayed by an ensemble of little-known but interesting actors, whose stories are seen entirely from the perspective of surveillance cameras in ATM machines, high-school parking lots, a department store stockroom, etc.
The characters are mostly unaware their behavior and misbehavior is being recorded. The audience isn’t. Hence the film’s ingenious charm.
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