http://splideo.com/2006/01/30/the-hacker/ Finding crazy videos on the web since 1973. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:45:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 http://splideo.com/2006/01/30/the-hacker/#comment-7 Tue, 31 Jan 2006 05:31:15 +0000 http://splideo.com/2006/01/30/the-hacker/#comment-7 Did he discover himself? I think someone on the other end busted him and that's what surprised him. But I think we can both agree that this kid is going places. Did he discover himself? I think someone on the other end busted him and that’s what surprised him. But I think we can both agree that this kid is going places.

]]> http://splideo.com/2006/01/30/the-hacker/#comment-3 Tue, 31 Jan 2006 02:02:58 +0000 http://splideo.com/2006/01/30/the-hacker/#comment-3 I found the juxtapositon of events leading up to the main character's learning of his own reality at the final moments of the film quite enlightning. The irony of discovering his fictional "self" in the film and thus declaring "This can't be true!" was clearly a nod to modernity principles in cinema. I think the message it conveys is unfortunately quite commonly overlooked and underappreciated by today's filmmakers. Plus, he was probably hacking the CIA, and not a bank. I found the juxtapositon of events leading up to the main character’s learning of his own reality at the final moments of the film quite enlightning. The irony of discovering his fictional “self” in the film and thus declaring “This can’t be true!” was clearly a nod to modernity principles in cinema. I think the message it conveys is unfortunately quite commonly overlooked and underappreciated by today’s filmmakers. Plus, he was probably hacking the CIA, and not a bank.

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