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This week, we take a retrospective look at the movie Enemy of the State, a Will Smith / Gene Hackman vehicle about the dangers of government surveillance, as the entire force of the NSA is brought to bear against a single man for being tangentially involved in an embarrassing incident for a politician.

This episode does not feature a plot summary, this is a long conversation about a movie that has an extremely large amount to say.

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Nemo

not an exact parallel but it most reminded me of Three Days of the Condor - complete with the ambiguous ending where the immediate danger is stopped but the real villains remain free. also completely fucking wild that the NSA actually took inspiration from this movie

Tovfly

Nice continuity for Gene Hackman from the Conversation to this

Tess

For those confused "OSINT" that is used from 47 mins on is "Open Source INTelligence" which is using open information combined with other sources to replicate state surveillance capabilities.

Cat Mara

Actual incidence of the Torment Nexus meme!

Toby

Ridley Scott made Prometheus bro! Cos he made original Alien! It was his bro, bro!

Toby

Great choice as well though btw, absolutely loving this :)

Toby

The Conversation is great as well! The pivotal scene is all about social awkwardness I found on my most recent rewatch.

Tovfly

Just occurred to me, before listening to this one, that you probably brought that up.