: Soderbergh uses distinct cinematography to illustrate Angela's mental state. Her apartment is filmed with steady, wide shots, while the outside world is captured with canted angles and frantic handheld camerawork to evoke her sensory overload.
: The film explores the invasive nature of smart devices and how the data they collect can be used (or ignored) by powerful corporations. Kimi(2022)
: When she tries to report the crime to her superiors, she is met with corporate resistance and bureaucracy. To seek justice and provide the evidence, she is forced to confront her deepest fear: leaving her apartment and navigating the outside world. Themes and Production : When she tries to report the crime
Released in early 2022, is a high-tech psychological thriller directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by David Koepp . The film modernizes classic "voyeuristic" suspense tropes—reminiscent of Hitchcock’s Rear Window —by placing them in the context of modern surveillance and the COVID-19 pandemic. Plot Overview " a tech giant behind Kimi
The story follows (played by Zoë Kravitz), an agoraphobic tech worker living in Seattle during the pandemic.
: Angela works for "Amygdala," a tech giant behind Kimi , an Alexa-like smart speaker. Her role is to review and fix "mismatched" voice data—instances where the AI failed to understand a user's command.