![]() ![]() Everything is filtered through his perspective, and the question of how reliable a point of view James can be is for the audience to decide. In that sense the film gets you inside its main character’s head. Sometimes the answers given do not fit with what James already knows, raising further questions. ![]() Some characters are deliberately vague or offer a conflicting account to another. While there is plenty of information to piece together individual theories, there is little that is concrete or definitive. ![]() This will likely be divisive for audiences, as it does seem as though answers are likely towards the end. The dialogue between them can be clunky at times, but never enough to be distractingĪlthough the film follows a compelling mystery, not everything is fully explained. Some of these characters get more development than others, with most only having a handful of scenes, as the focus is on James and the tapes. The side characters are all distinct, with most having their own motivations for helping or warning James. The mystery itself is compelling, with plenty of twists and turns thrown in. The film does a good job of drip-feeding information at a good pace but does fall into a trap of many scenes just being exposition sometimes. The SAL-E Sparx broadcasts are inspired by the real-life “Max Headroom” incidents // Credit: MPI Media Group/ Sky Films, 2021 Fans of Censor and Archive 81 will feel right at home. It’s the perfect amount of creepy and intriguing, with plenty of elements for the audience to dive into and interpret themselves. The signal interruptions themselves are suitably strange, with a creepy mask, weird noises and echoes of the videos made by Heath Ledger’s Joker in The Dark Knight. ![]() Some scenes are lit by nothing but the computer monitor. It sets the tone well, with even scenes set outside in the day, seeming gloomy. From the tech and fashion, down to the chunky clicks and tones that the computers and video players make. The film does an excellent job of evoking the nineties. While archiving, he comes across a signal hijacking, and becomes obsessed, needing answers. He lives alone and rarely interacts with the group, his only real interaction being with his boss via post-it notes they leave each other. He spends his days watching old home videos of her, and attending a support group, while his nights are spent archiving videos. James lives a lonely life since the disappearance of his wife Hanna. But the WTTW takeover lasted a full 90 seconds, and the pirate TV broadcast's audio, while distorted, was audible to anyone who happened to be tuned in.James (Harry Shum Jr) investigates strange broadcasts in the aftermath of his wife’s disappearance // Credit: MPI Media Group/ Sky Films, 2021 In the case of the WGN news broadcast, engineers were able to change the frequency used in the uplink to the John Hancock tower after a brief interruption, and the audio from the pirate transmission was drowned in static. The hack was made possible by the analog television broadcast technology of the day-the attacker was able to overpower the signals sent by the television studios to a broadcast antenna atop the John Hancock building in Chicago with his or her own signals. To this day, the perpetrators of the television hack remain unknown. Who on the Chicago public television station WTTW. The "broadcast intrusion" interrupted a primetime news broadcast from Chicago's WGN, and then (more successfully) the 11:00pm broadcast of Dr. Thirty years ago today, a person or persons unknown briefly hijacked the signal of two Chicago television stations, broadcasting a bizarre taped message from a man wearing a Max Headroom mask. ![]()
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