Netflix continues to pump out the original content with their latest original film, Anon.
From Andrew Niccol who wrote The Truman Show and wrote and directed In Time, Sal Frieland is a detective in a world with no privacy, ignorance, or anonymity; where everyone’s lives are transparent, traceable, and recorded by the authorities; where crime almost ceases to exist. But in trying to solve a series of unsolved murders, Frieland stumbles on a young woman known only as the Girl. She has no identity, no history and is invisible to the cops. Sal realises this may not be the end of crime, but the beginning.
Essentially, the film is set in a world where augmented reality can be displayed right in front of a person’s sight and everything can be recorded. Sal’s visual feed is hacked, which is where the Girl comes in—she’s a hacker capable of deleting people from someone’s visual record and turning her into some kind of privacy rights activist.
Hacking someone’s visual feed can get a little dangerous as in the trailer we see Sal driving into a busy intersection that he believes is all clear and almost getting knocked out by a train that was not there a second before, or so he thought.
Starring Clive Owen (The Knick), Amanda Seyfried (Mamma Mia), Colm Feore (House of Cards), Sonya Walger (The Catch), Mark O’Brien (Halt and Catch Fire), Joe Pingue (Godless), and Iddo Goldberg (Salem).
Anon is available internationally May 4th on Netflix.
