![]() ![]() The picture appears to be building toward some cathartic climax, but it never arrives. ![]() Once they’re raised, he has no idea what to do with them. In adapting Dave Eggers’ 2013 novel of the same name, director James Ponsoldt (The End of the Tour, The Spectacular Now) raises plenty of ideas that we should all be deeply concerned about. It’s not long before eager-beaver Mae, having quaffed a deep draft of the company Smart Water, volunteers to wear one of these little visual tattle-tales 24/7-OK, not while she’s in the bathroom-to prove to the world that this new technology is the best thing to happen to democracy since a bunch of villagers showed up for a town hall in ancient Athens. Ergo, this gewgaw will make human beings better citizens and the world a better place. The idea is that constant surveillance-“transparency,” Bailey calls it-makes all human beings more honest, accountable and responsible. The company is about to launch a miniature camera that can be placed anywhere, to record anything-basically, it’s an all-seeing eyeball with some stickum on the back. ![]()
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