I thought the documentary was terrible. Seemed more like a feel good time for the makers then a serious attempt to make any sort of change. It really felt like watching a pointless road trip.
I realize the issues brought up are serious, but as a documentary I think this film fails terribly.
that was my initial reaction as well, but part of it (intentional or not) hit me. Hackers pride themselves in trial and error, being curious, reaching for the impossible. This is one of their attempts to get the message out...and they failed at it. It goes to show how powerless they are toward the mainstream media, but how powerful they are amongst themselves.
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okay...fail was probably the wrong word.
what I was refering to was "it was as if we hadn't said a word."
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Sorry to resurect and old topic but...
The road trip was part of the journey to look into a world that most people have bad stigmas about. Kind of like how in most documentaries on poor urban neighborhoods they spend a huge amount of time following the damn hooligans to show what their world is really like unlike what you hear on the news.
Also, every second of this film was focused on Kevin Mitnik and how this was an unjust thing. Compared to many documentaries I have seen, I was amazed on how focused and not dramatized up this was.
Most films like this should be doing that instead of slapping on color filters and changing angles. You are documenting something, not trying to out do the cinematography of Memento here!
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To me this wasnt really documentary about injustices of american legal system. It was demonstration of grassroots activism for some small cause. Occasionally it was funny, occasionally it was just guys making home video about their road trip. It was introduction to hacker culture. I was left with a feeling that there was more to arresting kevin than just a hysteria that he could start nuclear war from a phone booth. So it wasnt really unbiased documentary but that is okay. Tree years without trial is probably not the worst injustice of american legal system.
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