Author: Eric Pedicelli

EYE FOR FILM – Examining the human rights pros and cons of the internet in terms of citizen journalism and global surveillance.

Its principal plus point is the degree to which it focuses on the importance of the internet in economically disadvantaged countries which are often ignored by such analyses. There’s an express recognition here that where the internet was once damaged by rich Western and Northern nations, it is having its most dramatic effect in the global South and East as access to information and the potential for mass communication reaches people who in many cases have previously enjoyed only a basic education and have had little chance to influence the world around them. Through the excitement of new opportunities brought about by this, De Pencier weaves cautionary tales. He endeavours to equip his viewers with tools through which to better protect their privacy, and he looks at the way cyber technologies have been exploited not just be governments but by political extremists. The internet has liberated minority groups by helping them to connect, but it has also made them vulnerable. It has given women the chance to assert themselves politically, but cultures of rampant misogyny have led, in some cases, to murder. Source: https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/black-code-2016-film-review-by-jennie-kermode

FILM DOO – real heart and a bleak honesty

It’s the universal message focusing on the dangers around personal information in our social media age that really resonates throughout a film that is as entertaining as it is thoroughly educational and enlightening.