
David Bond lives in one of the most intrusive surveillance states in the world. He decides to find out how much private companies and the government know about him by putting himself under surveillance and attempting to disappear - a decision that changes his life forever. Leaving his pregnant wife and young child behind, he is tracked across the database state by two ruthless private investigators, on a chilling journey that forces him to contemplate the meaning of privacy -... (Full plot summary below)
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David Bond lives in one of the most intrusive surveillance states in the world. He decides to find out how much private companies and the government know about him by putting himself under surveillance and attempting to disappear - a decision that changes his life forever. Leaving his pregnant wife and young child behind, he is tracked across the database state by two ruthless private investigators, on a chilling journey that forces him to contemplate the meaning of privacy - and the loss of it.
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| Times-PicayuneMike ScottA thought-provoking, and at-times creepy, bit of hands-on reportage. |
| EDGE BostonPhil HallFor the most part, Bond is not the most effective fugitive. |
| User ReviewEmma dA remarquable piece on the database society. To show to those who expose their life everywhere... |
| User ReviewGary SEntertaining and raises some important issues. But I'm staying with Facebook (even if it was supposedly conceived by the CIA..) |
| User ReviewLesly JDisturbing movie about privacy. Makes you really wonder about dangers of the measures 'for our savety'. Chronologically a bit confusing maybe, but it makes it point very well. |
| User ReviewDuncan SA documentary that plays like a thriller as a journalist tries to go off the grid for 30 days while two PI's try to find him. Showing just how much information comapnies keep on individuals this is exhilirating and, most of all, shocking |
| User ReviewLorna FA documentary that's great for fueling your worst Big Brother nightmares. It makes me want to go off the grid and erect a hut in Montana somewhere. |
| User ReviewLuke WA really clever doc that highlights what Big Brother Britain is actually up to, scary too see how many people have your data. |
| User ReviewMike MThis eye-catching, thought-provoking doc plays like a Morgan Spurlock project in thriller, rather than comic, mode... Some staginess/construction is evident: the paranoia Bond spirals into while off the map, dismantling his kit like Harry Caul in "The Conversation" and flailing in "Blair Witch" night vision when he retreats to the woods, is all too clearly (and, over the long run, monotonously) a performance. The film's strongest material is unfaked, and taps into the high anxiety of the age: while ducking his pursuers, Bond discovers the extent to which his favoured online retailers and broadband provider have detailed his every move, and how individual lives have been ruined by heinous data mismanagement. Aggressive lobbying by the private security sectors, coupled with the controlling-nannying influences of the State have, we learn, combined to leave the UK as the third biggest surveillance state behind China and Russia (who have form in this arena) - and that's even before we factor in ID cards... |
| User ReviewAndrew CA fascinating concept for a documentary - can a man simply vanish in the age of constant surveillance? - is fundamentally flawed from the outset as David's wife is seven months pregnant and he has a young daughter. Much better to have spent some more time researching the idea and then attempting the exercise some months later. By then he might have known better than to spend his time on the run staying with friends, visiting relatives, appearing on a video blog, living rough in a forest a la Blair Witch for no discernible reason, and finally turning up for his wife's antenatal class and getting caught. |