Johnny switches on calendar on TV screen where sees that today’s date is Thursday January 17, 2021, which is Sunday in our reality. Then by this remote controller he dials a phone number on TV to Ralfi who offers him a profit-paying job located in central part of Beijing. Future technologies of film repelling from progress of that time looked great in then reality while obsolent in present watching. Make a phone call is more comfortable than it was presenting twenty-five years ago.
What is a future in the film?
World attacked Nerve Attenuation Syndrome (shorted in NAS), which syndromes are blindness, mark decay of synoptic functions, blackout, uncontrollable trembles. It appeared 32.8 months ago (April 2017) and still cause is unknown. Officially is no vaccine, but later will discover cure was invented 8 months ago (May 2020). Well, unfortunately, world pandemic has in reality caused by coronavirus got name COVID-19 from Chinese town Wuhan appeared in December 2019. Syndromes of it can be fatigue, loss of smell ability, fever, breathing trouble, coughing, high temperature. It still unknown from what animal origins virus. First vaccine proofed 95% effectiveness and it released in December 2020.
Internet isn’t in virtual reality, which isn’t progressive as in film. Hacking doesn’t go dramatically and you willn’t get an electricity strike for failure to pass off paroles if you don’t make a personal option of your keyboard activating for every wrong pushed button.
Movie doesn’t miss about Asian influence, which can see from China in nowadays. Johnny Mnemonic indicated it in Japan, which corporations not so far from a time of filming were buying American companies. Buyout brought to inflation of the country of rising sun in the end of eighties. In 1989, appointed director of Bank of Japan Yasushi Mieno didn’t take attention on economic situation and extremely was raising rates. Crash of Japanese economy was achieved in 1992.
No wrong in reporting about influence of corporations. Life of most of Americans tied with them. Salary gives in paycheck, which can convert in cash in banks. Possibly pills were made by one of pharmacological corporation. Internet, cable television, video on demand, smartphones are usually from multinational companies.
Johnny arrives in Beijing where he goes through anti-government protests requiring to stop NAS. Impossible fantasy that citizens of modern China express a mass disagreement. I know it was in minor scale in provinces, which are due of greediness of local politicians who deprive a source of life for inhabitants. And those organize protests for return of stability, which returns by appearance of high-ranking men. Nobody of strikers do it against of the Party. Anti-government protests have presence in Hong Kong, which China occupies. Johnny visits a place of job getting, which is delivering of information on 320 gigabytes by his brain. Capacity in head of antagonist is 160 gigabytes. There has no a need to know neuroscience for understand of initial absurd. However, follow further. 320 gigabytes looked a large-scale size, which is today big, but not as in 1995. I have in recalling Space Quest IV, a game of 1991 with size less of 100 megabytes had in a story a disk with King’s Quest XXXXVIII – Quest for Disk Space, which description puzzles on find space for requiring 12 gigabytes. Transportation of file with 320 gigabytes can deliver without brain damage in our world by flash drive, which today has in terabytes. File downloaded for less of one minute and one minute with few seconds will later in movie’s story. Extremely unbelievable for 2021, which we have. The fastest downloading is 2000 Megabits in second by Xfinity. It uploads 250 Megabytes for one second from where gets 21 minutes and 20 seconds will spent for 320 gigabytes.
After downloading Johnny goes in bathroom for washing of hands. Sink’s crane activates by limb detection what in present days can find in civilized countries. Voice says a temperature of water, which is possibly can be, but I’ve never heard on implementation of it. Meantime, hotel room attacks yakuza whose main man has a laser thread for breaking of door, dismembering people and it strangely useless against iron cage. Laser technologies in development for militaries as usually at first, but progress hasn’t film’s level and it doesn’t come for personal using. And I more care about safety of that weapon. I take for theory that it was invented on black market or that guy could did it for himself.
Johnny evades shootout and escapes in independent Free City of Newark, which didn’t become in reality. A state lives in mega poverty. It possibly to see hobos (and all of them are negroes.) in this part of America, but economy stance isn’t disastrous and people without home aren’t so much as all this watching in the film. Furthermore, currently in New Jersey state rarely can see much people due of quarantine. Johnny passes migration check by scanning machine making his body roentgen and using of electronic ID. Of course, developed world goes to electronic, but a paper passport in actuality with human custody officers whom film swapped on computer. Scanning advanced to seeing your body in 3D.
Story relocates to headquarters of Pharmakom in leading by yakuza. Japanese mafia, which legalized in origin country, because has organized structure, got for control crime of the most dangerous districts of Japan. They haven’t in ruling corporations and, of course, if it in New Jersey. Head of yakuza Takahashi watches 3D image of his dead daughter. It is possible in theory to watch if specially make it, but home video doesn’t watch in this view. Doesn’t rid from probability in closing screen by movement of hand as did Takahashi in conversation of appeared as will revealed an artificial intelligence of died company worker who freely jumping in networks. 2021 happened at us is not have it.
Johnny traps in confrontation with yakuza who had automatic rifles, which can transform in pistol with silencer. I didn’t see models of film’s weapon, but these kind of guns aren’t trouble in making and they are presenting. After few corps Johnny comes in bar on meeting with Ralfi where show a bartender with metallic hand implants, which is true for us. Technologies allow to have limps to which can give action commands. Johnny knows that employer betrayed him, but he traps for the second time. Ralfi in collaboration with yakuza want to extract file from a main hero. It doesn’t happen, because looking for job personage named Jane helps for offered 20,000 turned to 50,000 dollars Johnny escape from guys, whom could kill in the movie for multiple times, but them keep alive for final kill.
Then, after many running, Johnny uses a booth phone for making a video call. Everywhere in scenes of dialing can see AT&T logo. A company tried in decades to launch a videophone. Three years before of filming it was Videophone 2500. Implementation of conversation with using of video was from late 1870s. First film demonstrated speaking characters was incredible Metropolis (1927) where set goes in 2026. Johnny uses a phone booth, which can see in exclusion places. Not anymore on the streets to bitter unfortunately. It easy to call by portative phone and switch on video for seen a person, but image in ugly rectangle to shame and curse of makers. Later will reveal that a man with whom talked Johnny was a fake live image used by yakuza leader. It can do in our actuality, but graphics quality is not identical for believe.
Adventures of Johnny will unwillingly make him a requiring savior of the world who in expressed disagree to be this man in many tastes mentions “10,000 dollars hooker for night”. Well, so little of prostitutes take in thousands and more and more less in ten thousands. Apart of it, them can find for 40,000 dollars in time of Cannes Festival. However, prostitutes in the expensive brothels cost less of five hundreds dollars. Johnny wants exclusive if in our situation.
Of course, Johnny will agree to save the world and by it he will get more than “10,000 dollars hooker for night” – will find love.
I am not attractive to future of Johnny Mnemonic, but I prefer it to seeing reality for hotel rooms where significant for me a Beijing’s bathroom designed with artistry to incomparable mono in contemporary hotels.
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