The Net (feat. Josie Duffy Rice)
Unclear and Present Danger
Jamelle Bouie
4.7 • 660 Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2023
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode of Unclear and Present Danger, Jamelle and John are joined by the Josie Duffy Rice of the Unreformed podcast to discuss “The Net,” a 1995 techno-thriller, directed by Irwin Winkler and starring Sandra Bullock, Jeremy Northam and Dennis Miller. The Net was one of several films in a mini-genre that you can describe as, “What if computer technology was used for evil?” Contemporaries include Hackers and Enemy of the State, both films we will eventually cover on this podcast.
Here is a brief plot synopsis:
Angela Bennett is a freelance software engineer who lives in a world of computer technology. When a cyber friend asks Bennett to debug a new game, she inadvertently becomes involved in a conspiracy that will soon turn her life upside down and make her the target of an assassination.
The tagline for The Net is: “NO DRIVER’S LICENSE, NO CREDIT CARDS, NO PASSPORT, NO ACCESS TO HER BANK ACCOUNTS IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY … SHE FINDS HER IDENTITY STOLEN.”
The Net is available to rent on Amazon and iTunes.
Our next episode will on the 1994 adaptation of the novel “Fatherland,” starring Rutger Hauer and Miranda Richardson. You can watch it on YouTube.
Connor Lynch produced this episode. Artwork by Rachel Eck.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We all live in the age of information. |
| 0:06.0 | We're sitting on the most perfect beach in the world and all we can think about is where... |
| 0:10.0 | Can I hook up my mom? |
| 0:12.0 | Every trace of our existence is computerized. |
| 0:16.0 | Everything about us is encoded somewhere on a complex network of information. Computers your life, |
| 0:24.1 | aren't there? Yes, perfect hiding freak. Computer analyst Angela Bennett was just doing her job. |
| 0:36.9 | When she stumbled onto something. |
| 0:39.3 | What is this? |
| 0:40.3 | She never should have seen. |
| 0:42.3 | I plugged it in and I'm staring at the personal medical files of the Undersecretary of Defense Michael Borgstow. |
| 0:47.3 | Someone's tapped into the system. |
| 0:49.3 | How long would it take a track of? |
| 0:51.3 | Depends on how long she stays online. |
| 0:53.3 | Something. Why would anybody want to do any of this? |
| 0:56.0 | That reaches farther than she could ever imagine. |
| 0:59.0 | They hack into computers and they cause this chaos. |
| 1:01.0 | Wall Street. |
| 1:02.0 | The market panic has official suspended trading. |
| 1:04.0 | The Department of Water and Power in Atlanta. |
| 1:06.0 | LAX. |
| 1:09.0 | We've lost radar contact. |
| 1:12.6 | Now, it's finally to go. |
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