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Amibtious sci-fi thriller, but a little unsatisfying


Listening is an ambitious low budget sci-fi thriller that is unfortunately hindered by unsatisfactory performances. http://www.cutprintfilm.com/reviews/listening/

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I don't think it was as bad as some of the comments might indicate. Personally, though I think it helps if you interested in sci-fi and science. If you don't have those interests, there may not be enough other merits for you to enjoy the film.

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i enjoyed the film a lot. i love garage scientist world changing discovery plots. i felt like this one fell apart a bit toward the end when the one happy go lucky friend all of sudden turns hardcore militant after the death of his grandmother. seemed quite random extreme change. also i don't too much like films where the characters' motivation is to destroy the technology they have created. someone that creative should be able to come up with a solution more creative than to try and destroy the technology. they should know that whatever has been created once, can and will be created again, so better to find a solution you can be a part of rather than leave it to total chance by letting it surface somewhere random where consequences may be even worse than what you have imagined.

here are a couple solutions that my non-genius can come up with that would have tempered the mass control problem.
1. expose the technology. if everyone knows the mind control tech is out there, it's harder to get the masses to accept it without checks and balances. let the story spin around the globe, it's easier to fight it if wider community is aware, than one on one
2. come up with an alternative tech that allows everyone to block the mind control effects, not just buddhist monks.
3. share the technology. make sure every scientist has access to create the same thing. open source it and surely others will come up with hacks to circumvent it or block it, rendering the specialness of the government having this tech, less unique and special.

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