It’s never intense enough for the paranoid thriller it wants to be, but it has some chilling things to say about the dangers of the not-quite all-seeing eye of a total-surveillance society. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
A “trap street” is a trick mapmakers use to protect their work: it might be a road that’s deliberately left off a published map, or one represented with more curves than it actually has — it’s an intentional error that will show up in a competitor’s map only if they haven’t done the surveying themselves and have stolen someone else’s representation of reality. It’s almost a real-life trap street that surveyor Li Qiuming (Yulai Lu) and his partner “discover” as they survey a Chinese city: their calculations for “Forest Lane” keep...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
A “trap street” is a trick mapmakers use to protect their work: it might be a road that’s deliberately left off a published map, or one represented with more curves than it actually has — it’s an intentional error that will show up in a competitor’s map only if they haven’t done the surveying themselves and have stolen someone else’s representation of reality. It’s almost a real-life trap street that surveyor Li Qiuming (Yulai Lu) and his partner “discover” as they survey a Chinese city: their calculations for “Forest Lane” keep...
- 10/22/2013
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
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