Thursday, July 31, 2008

Untraceable

Was watching this DVD at home, and I find it quite amazing. Even though I went online to look at what people say about the show, and many of them were negative, I would still give the movie a 7 on a scale of 10.

This movie is about this psycho who kidnaps people, torture them, put it on live streaming, and the more people who visit the website, the faster the person gets killed. So basically, if no one surfed the website, the person will never be dead. But, amazingly, millions of people visit the website everytime someone gets captured and is streamed online, and it indirectly causes the person to die even faster.

What will you do if this happens in real life? If you are the police, will you hold a press conference and ask people to stop visiting the website? If you are the public and you hear about this story, will you be thinking, "Nah, me going to visit the website won't harm. It's only adding 1 to the number anyway. Won't get that person killed that quickly."

Sadly, I believe that if this actually happened in real life, an alarming number of people will visit the website. And after that person dies, these people will not even be guilty and think that they are actually accomplices in crime.

The power of internet. In a negative way. Reflected so accurately through this movie. Go watch it.

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