A tech worker, Angela Childs, works in Seattle for a company that developed a virtual assistant device, KIMI. The device is like Siri or Alexa, but it's one that supposedly improves over time in getting to know its owner-user. We find out early on that it's tech workers such as Angela who remotely monitor the audio data from KIMI and fixes the lapse where KIMI did not understand commands or requests from users. In so doing, Angela comes across an audio stream she is convinced is evidence of a crime, a rape-murder she suspects. She alerts management, seeking help in dealing with what she suspects.
Turns out Angela wasn't wrong, 'but techies' of the company do not have access to users details, only the unresolved audio streams. She is berated by the company CEO for bringing up the matter with so little evidence, simply her intuition of what the audio could indicate. But as it so happens, the perpetrator of the crime has ties to the CEO and financial leverage, significant leverage, and enough to make all the difference; this person anticipated the possibility of potential KIMI related evidence.
Angela had been herself victim of rape many years before, and it was the cause of her agoraphobia. She couldn't let things go. With her foreign tech contacts and much initiative she uncovers enough of the user details to take the matter to the company law enforcement intermediary, just the person she needs. Although she is agoraphobic, she does manage to have a friend (with benefit) and also an admirer, both of whom live in the building across from hers, and, she overcomes her anxious fear of leaving her apartment to follow up on the matter despite her CEO's warning. I've revealed enough already, so I'll just add that Angela should not have pursued the matter. You'll also be glad to know she survives; she's a kickass-techie.
This movie is a Steven Soderbergh movie, the Oscar winning director, so you know he was capable of doing something really good with a script from famous and accomplished script-writer David Koepp. I admit I knew virtually nothing about the actors, except the famous parents of Zoë Kravitz, the lead actor who plays Angela. I will remember her next time I see her name in a cast. The story is so smartly developed that you only realize as the film progresses how so many little details were NOT incidental. The pace is progressive, and steadily so; you may be sitting comfortably on your couch at first but you'll be sitting on the edge of it before the last few scenes. IMDb categorizes this movie as crime-drama-thriller. Correct on all counts! One final tiny detail... After you see the movie, and I hope you do, the title of this review will make more sense than you can appreciate, for the moment.
Turns out Angela wasn't wrong, 'but techies' of the company do not have access to users details, only the unresolved audio streams. She is berated by the company CEO for bringing up the matter with so little evidence, simply her intuition of what the audio could indicate. But as it so happens, the perpetrator of the crime has ties to the CEO and financial leverage, significant leverage, and enough to make all the difference; this person anticipated the possibility of potential KIMI related evidence.
Angela had been herself victim of rape many years before, and it was the cause of her agoraphobia. She couldn't let things go. With her foreign tech contacts and much initiative she uncovers enough of the user details to take the matter to the company law enforcement intermediary, just the person she needs. Although she is agoraphobic, she does manage to have a friend (with benefit) and also an admirer, both of whom live in the building across from hers, and, she overcomes her anxious fear of leaving her apartment to follow up on the matter despite her CEO's warning. I've revealed enough already, so I'll just add that Angela should not have pursued the matter. You'll also be glad to know she survives; she's a kickass-techie.
This movie is a Steven Soderbergh movie, the Oscar winning director, so you know he was capable of doing something really good with a script from famous and accomplished script-writer David Koepp. I admit I knew virtually nothing about the actors, except the famous parents of Zoë Kravitz, the lead actor who plays Angela. I will remember her next time I see her name in a cast. The story is so smartly developed that you only realize as the film progresses how so many little details were NOT incidental. The pace is progressive, and steadily so; you may be sitting comfortably on your couch at first but you'll be sitting on the edge of it before the last few scenes. IMDb categorizes this movie as crime-drama-thriller. Correct on all counts! One final tiny detail... After you see the movie, and I hope you do, the title of this review will make more sense than you can appreciate, for the moment.