Irumbu Thirai (இரும்புத்திரை, Iron Curtain, Tamil; 2018)
Every now and then, one can get a fresh new idea popping up in Tamil movies and this is one. As usual, most often the filmmakers, in their best wisdom, would decide that the storyline should be so frivolous that the whole film will end up making not much for an impact, especially to those outside the purview of Kollywood fans.
This film acts more like a PSA (public service announcement) highlighting the general public the dangers of freely divulging personal particular and private data to social media and to people of authority.
The gist of the story is how loans supposedly released for purchases end up with third parties via interception at a digital level. In the greater scheme of things, these wastages are mere paper losses. To the poor debtors, it is a question of life or death; of loss of livelihood. As far the bank is concerned, the transaction is done and the borrower has to pay, no matter what.
In the movie, the audience is also introduced to the Darknet, perhaps in a completely one-dimensional manner. It gives the impression that the Dark Web is interchangeable with the Deep Web (where private data is stored) and is owned by a single person and everything bad that happens in the world can be traced to it. A little clarification is warranted. Perhaps the two Youtube snippets below can shed some light into this.
The Dark Web or Darknet provides an authority control-free environment for people to conduct their activities. Unfortunately, it also became an avenue for drug pushers, pimps and smugglers to conduct their clandestine activities and launder their monies through the help of cryptocurrency.
Two disturbing things that appear in this film involve the main two characters. The hero, an Indian Army Major is seeing wooing foreign tourist in the hope of marrying them and migrating away from India. It does not speak much of an Army Officer who has so much disdain over the nation that he is supposed to be defending.
In another scene where this Major is assigned to a psychiatrist for anger management issues, it appears to me that their (the Major and the psychiatrist) interaction is anything but a physician-patient one. No one seems to realise that something is wrong in the manner their business is handled.
And again it is the lesson of poetic justice and the unbelievable success story of a lone wolf against the powerful and intricate web of baddies of international proportions. This formula works for some.
Every now and then, one can get a fresh new idea popping up in Tamil movies and this is one. As usual, most often the filmmakers, in their best wisdom, would decide that the storyline should be so frivolous that the whole film will end up making not much for an impact, especially to those outside the purview of Kollywood fans.
This film acts more like a PSA (public service announcement) highlighting the general public the dangers of freely divulging personal particular and private data to social media and to people of authority.
The gist of the story is how loans supposedly released for purchases end up with third parties via interception at a digital level. In the greater scheme of things, these wastages are mere paper losses. To the poor debtors, it is a question of life or death; of loss of livelihood. As far the bank is concerned, the transaction is done and the borrower has to pay, no matter what.
In the movie, the audience is also introduced to the Darknet, perhaps in a completely one-dimensional manner. It gives the impression that the Dark Web is interchangeable with the Deep Web (where private data is stored) and is owned by a single person and everything bad that happens in the world can be traced to it. A little clarification is warranted. Perhaps the two Youtube snippets below can shed some light into this.
The Dark Web or Darknet provides an authority control-free environment for people to conduct their activities. Unfortunately, it also became an avenue for drug pushers, pimps and smugglers to conduct their clandestine activities and launder their monies through the help of cryptocurrency.
Two disturbing things that appear in this film involve the main two characters. The hero, an Indian Army Major is seeing wooing foreign tourist in the hope of marrying them and migrating away from India. It does not speak much of an Army Officer who has so much disdain over the nation that he is supposed to be defending.
In another scene where this Major is assigned to a psychiatrist for anger management issues, it appears to me that their (the Major and the psychiatrist) interaction is anything but a physician-patient one. No one seems to realise that something is wrong in the manner their business is handled.
And again it is the lesson of poetic justice and the unbelievable success story of a lone wolf against the powerful and intricate web of baddies of international proportions. This formula works for some.
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