Mr. Robot
Plot summary:
Elliot Alderson works as a
cyber-security engineer for a company called AllSafe by day and as a vigilante
hacker by night. On one particular day, Elliot is approached by a mysterious individual
known as Mr. Robot who wants to
recruit him into his secret hacker society known as fsociety, to help take down the largest conglomerate in the world: E Corp; and in doing so, create a
financial meltdown and wipe clean all the debt people owe it. Caught between
his job of protecting E Corp in his cyber-security line of work and his
personal beliefs and ideals, Elliot finds himself in a moral dilemma at first,
but decides to help fsociety in their cause anyway, in taking down E Corp piece
by piece.
Review:
Ok, so we’re given a front-seat
view into Elliot’s life and mind, both. The series focuses a lot into
displaying his character traits and struggles. He suffers from social anxiety
and depression and can only truly connect with people by hacking into their
online social media profiles. A humble good guy who utilizes his hacking to
actually help people whenever he can. And it also shows him to have a viewpoint
on society that even society itself tends to turns a blind eye to, such as the
blind idolization of celebrities, the exaggerated connections through social
media, and society’s need to be sedated – a counterfeit world that we’ve
created for ourselves.
And Rami Malek’s acting is just
terrific. He’s spot-on with his portrayal, down to the pretty convincing facial
expressions of his. He definitely makes all of Elliot’s struggles look really
convincing. And coming to the anarchist, Mr. Robot, Christian Slater does an
equally terrific job in his acting as well, from his calm arguments to his
volatile and violent actions. The other supporting actors and actresses, such
as Carly Chaikin(Darlene), Portia Doubleday(Angela Moss), Martin
Wallstrom(Tyrell Wellick), are also praiseworthy for their acting.
The cinematography was really
good, especially when Elliot was having his meltdowns. The quickly changing
camera angles, along with the close ups really made the scenes all the more intense.
And the music blended well into those scenes. The music, from the old songs to
the orchestral music was pretty entertaining, and the music really fit in with
the situations that arose in the series – it really set the mood. And the
suspense music was brilliant. The dialogues were really interesting. The ICT
ramblings, the drama, the narrations, were all well-written and kept this
series interesting. As a viewer, I personally feel that Rami Malek’s narration
as Elliot had a great impact – it made the necessary connection to feel and
understand Elliot’s situations and states-of-mind.
This series tends to tackle some
serious subjects, like the one I mentioned before about this fake world that we’ve
created. It talks about Daemons; the
unconscious habbits and primal urges that each of us have, and are prisoners to
– that it is what drives us and not our intentions, and that we can try to be
or do good, but it would be to no avail. And it also speaks about how
exhausting life is – a repeating cycle– no end, no change – like a fish in a
fishbowl. The series also brings about the topic of how multinational
co-operations can run the world while running it to the ground along with their
abuse of power to cover up their own misdeeds. I personally find this series to
be really interesting and fun to watch.
Catch the trailer here:
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