Enemy of the state
Just imagine a situation in which you are monitored by someone that you don’t know, for the purpose that the nation just wants to protect its own security and then what’s about you feeling.
As the movie starts, the Congress is going to pass legislation to expend surveillance powers of law enforcement agencies. Congressman Phillp is trying to stop the bill because he believes it is an invasion of privacy, while Thomas is trying to push the bill through to confront growing terrorist threats against the US, and advance his own career as well. Hardly had Phil refused to reconsider when he was murdered by a man, one of two rogue NAS agent loyal to Thomas, who inserted a bottle of heart medicine into the body of Phil made the death seem like a heart attack. However, as the old saying goes “The clay has the eyes, the night has the ears.” what they had done was caught by a video camera set up by a wildlife researcher Zavitz by chance. Zavitz, who viewed the entire incident, phoned his friend, an anti-war activitist and underground journalist without realizing there was a great threat approaching him and this call was tapped by Thomas. Wanting to expose this murder to the whole country, Zavitz copied another one. Unfortunately, he had a car accident while being chased by NAS agents, but he successfully slipped the tape into a shopping bag whose owner was his old friend in the university and now is a labour lawer named Dean. Dean had just come from a meeting with Mafia members who control a labour union. After being showed a tape, one of the men threatened to kill him if Dean failed to tell them the name of the source. Tough Zavitz died but he left th e tape with Dean who was unaware of it and busy buying the Christmas gift for his wife. But the story never stops easily. The agent found the business card in Zavitz’s pocket. Then Dean became the targeted man. They visited and questioned Dean, who was unaware of what had happened. Dean refused their search of his house without a warrant. On their left, Dean checked his shopping bags without finding anything special, which was taken away by his son who took that as his Christmas present. The following day, the agent broke into Dean’s house secretly looking for the tape. While they couldn’t find it, they put traces in his private clothes and other personal items and meanwhile they destroyed everything. It is easy for us to guess what will happen next. All Dean’s daily life was monitored by them, including his phone, his documents on the computer and so on. What’s worse, they smeared him with a false story with his former girlfriend Rachel who acted as a bridge between Dean and Brill who taped the video of the Mafia. Dean was fired by his firm and turned out by his wife. All his life was changing so quickly. He then called Rachel who was suffering the same as well as Dean. She told Dean how to get in touch with him, but at this special time, Brill refused to be involved in the case after knowing that Dean was monitored by a strong agency. Now that consciousness of what had happened to him, Dean returned home and in order to get the tape. Then he went to Rachel’s house, which was in a dreadful mess, and only finding her corpse lying on the floor. As soon as he escaped from it, he turned to Brill for help. He told everything to Brill. However, misfortunes never come singly. The tape was damaged during the trace. In order to make them admit their guilt, they had to meet them and seduced them to admit the crime. Instead Dean and Brill were caught by them. At the emergency, Dean came up an idea that he led them to the Mafia, who thought the NAS agents were the men who taped the video. After a shooting, all the people in the room either died or wounded except Dean who was under the table when all these were happening.
Well, I like case, the visual are well done, but what’s important is the plot that I like very much. Maybe it’s useful way to deal with the terrorist to monitor them. Then it brings the issue “Who will monitor the monitorors?” of course, it is necessary to monitor our enemies, however, at the same time we must be conscious that we should monitor th monitorers as well for not allowing them to abuse the right just for their own interest. What I wonder is that if it is the only way to copy with the terrorist or it is only an excuse of the politician to abuse the right. I think it’s the most significant problem. As far as I am concerned is that whether my present life is monitored or can be seen by everybody with the moder technology. Then if it is true , where is my privacy? As we all know, there are more ordinary citizens than terrorist, so why do we have to sacrifice the majority’s benefits just for a small group.
What is your opinion?
