C+ | A tech worker for an Alexa-esque device hears a suspicious video recording. Directed by Steven Soderbergh Starring Zoe Kravitz Review by Jon Kissel |
I’m using Facebook less and less, as my most friends have long since migrated off it to other social media and the ads are suffocating. It’s entertaining to watch people fall further down various conspiracy holes, but it’s not a good kind of entertainment. I know that a lot of work goes into making the news feed as banal an experience as possible. Despite the cleanliness of what pops up on my screen, armies of workers are scanning posts for content that is beyond the pale, from child pornography to live beheadings. I can’t imagine calling a shift when one sees a mere three human deaths a good one, because the average is nine. Plenty of articles have been written about the psychological toll that kind of job takes, and in Steven Soderbergh’s latest, one of these workers takes center stage. In Kimi, vast human experiences are served up to an already-shaky woman, little tidbits that are mostly useless and occasionally horrifying. The perfect job for the Covid era of the film, especially for the agoraphobic protagonist, can’t fully protect her from the outside world.
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