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Having a hard time picking what to watch? 🎬 Here are 5 films about privacy to watch this weekend 🧵 🔽
We Live In Public - A dot-com millionaire, Josh Harris, explores the impact of media and technology on personal identity through radical social experiments. His project "Quiet: We Live in Public" placed over 100 artists in a surveilled terrarium in NYC, where their every move was captured. Harris later, live streams his own life with his girlfriend. 🔽
Kimi - In pandemic-era Seattle, Angela (Zoë Kravitz), a reclusive tech worker for a smart speaker company, discovers a murder while analyzing user recordings. Haunted by past trauma, her solitary world is upended as she uncovers dark secrets involving the company's CEO. Tension mounts as Angela becomes entangled in a dangerous conspiracy. 🔽
Enemy of the State - Corrupt NSA official Thomas Reynolds (Jon Voight) orders a congressman's murder to secure new surveillance legislation. When labor lawyer Robert Clayton Dean (Will Smith) unknowingly receives evidence of the crime, he is framed and targeted. With help from ex-intelligence agent Brill (Gene Hackman), Dean fights to clear his name and expose the truth. 🔽
Citizen Four - In January 2013, filmmaker Laura Poitras receives encrypted emails from Edward Snowden, who reveals illegal surveillance practices by the NSA. Poitras, joined by journalist Glenn Greenwald, meets Snowden in Hong Kong to document his disclosures, sparking global debate on government overreach. 🔽
In 2073, a dystopian future unfolds with surveillance drones, militarized police, and survivors hiding underground, haunted by memories of a freer past. Academy Award-winning filmmaker Asif Kapadia blends science fiction and speculative nonfiction to explore the global crises of authoritarianism, big tech, inequality, and climate change. Samantha Morton stars as a survivor grappling with nightmare visions of a future rooted in today’s realities. 🧵