Spying In Sony's Film, Without You, There Is No Us

Double crosses, undercover missions, code breaking, eavesdropping and human torpedoes, called pigs, what more could you want from a book. The book Ultra Hush-Hush by Stephen Shapiro is all about cracking codes, going undercover, spying on the enemy and outwitting the opponent. In the book it tells stories about how particular people cracked the codes, blew up ships, spied on the enemy, worked as double agents, stole information and much more. The stories take place during World War II, when the Axis and the Allies were at war.

The Party uses surveillance in various intrusive ways to police the thoughts and actions of the people. In the opening scene, Winston uses an alcove in his flat to write in his diary out of sight of the telescreen, an instrument similar to a television that cannot be turned off. Winston knows that it is watching his every move. Later, when O’Brien simply turns off his telescreen, Winston is amazed at this inconceivable privilege. The screens cover public areas as well as each house in Oceania. Also covering the streets are posters of a man with a black moustache and following eyes, which everyone knows as Big Brother. This idyllic, anonymous figure

The main version of this surveillance is through the telescreen that is stationed in every room constantly watching the people. There is always propaganda across the screen supporting Big Brother and the endeavors of Ingsoc. The telescreen combined with the thought police is the ultimate tool for destroying individual thought, "The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself-anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide" (Orwell). This non-stop flow of information stimulates everyone to join in with the demands of Big Brother even when they do not want to. Even the telescreens and Thought Police are not enough because the people are faced with the omnipresent signs reading "BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU," that are constantly scrutinizing them.

The citizens of North Korea are under complete control of their leader, Kim Jung Un. They don’t have access to the Internet, they have minimal electricity, or they don’t have enough food for more than one person in their household. In each house, there is a poster of their current leader and a radio or television that are altered so that they only receive government channels. Their government wants all the citizens to be loyal to the government so they allow all citizens to turn anyone who may seem disloyal to Kim Jung Un. It’s similar to the novel because in every citizen’s home and everywhere they go there is a telescreen listening and watching what you were doing.

“V for Vendetta” uses similar tactics as us and “1984” to keep a close eye on the people of the nation. In the movie, they used cameras, telescreens, taped phones, fingermen,etc. as surveillance tools to

Everyone has always wondered if people were ever watching them. Our technology today is capable to eavesdrop in on anyone’s conversations even if their phones are turned off. In the novel, “1984”, the party INGSOC uses telescreens to watch over the people and always know what they are up to. This denies the people’s rights and privileges to go about their business as they please. The technology we have today is almost exact to what big brother uses in George Orwell’s novel by taking over the public and private parts of our lives.

Surveillance, specifically the idea of Panopticism, is mirrored by George Orwell's 1984, in which the people of Oceania are constantly watched by their government, the Party. The citizens, being controlled by a totalitarian government, followed a daily agenda. They were always watched and reported about but never held any significant or real information about their government. Like the function of the Panopticon to be able to see others but not allowing others to see you, there were spies who worked for the Party who were kept in secret, hidden but were able to see and report everything. The power of being "visible and unverifiable" (Loisel, 104-7) in Panopticism is having a literal watchtower in the line of sight of an inmate and never being

In the story “Nothing to Envy” people in North Korea spy on other people on their free time, just like in “Nothing to Envy” I also experienced being spied on. For example, when my parents decided to add a security camera on my front yard, it made me think on how the government can be watching us. What I mean is that if I was diving down a road really fast and I pass a stop light, there can be cameras on that stop light and the police can see pictures of me from the stop light and i’ll be arrested. That is a good reason to have cameras on stop lights but what if the government decided to put hidden cameras everywhere, for instance, in the bushes, trees, in buildings, maybe even my phone or any other electrical device with a camera. This scared

The Secret State of North Korea offered a great look into what basic things North Koreans are lacking. Even within the realm of Communism. Lack of freedoms, lack of food, lack of community, lack of trust, lack of a social society, lack of programs for children, lack of equality, and a lack of information. When Kim Il-Sung created North Korea, the government was based on Marxism and Leninism, called “Juche.” Just as the Soviets, the North Koreans followed suite with massive inequality between the government officials and the common people. The documentary showed its viewers what the government is omnipresent in the everyday lives of its people, so much so that recordings of daily life are illegal, and “random” searches take place commonly.

The film “The Conversation” brought upon the speculations and paranoia felt during the times of the Cold War to the public. The presence of communism struck fear into the hearts of the American society causing surveillance as moving along from foreign countries to domestic homes. The main character Harry Caul is a representation of the United States and the countries struggle to finding the answer whether its actions of surveillance were justified and moral. Harry Caul’s journey within the film creates many questions as his actions cause many turn of events and as history has shown the United States followed a similar path. Justification and morality are questionable attributes in Caul’s characteristics reflecting a similar conflict the United

One parallel from modern day life to George Orwel’s 1984 is the Telescreens or “big brother is watching you” to the NSA’s surveillance. In the novel the telescreen is a device similar to a TV combined with a security camera. The device is used by the party to monitor the behavior of the inner and outer party members and to insure that they are not plotting against the party. The people of the inner and outer party have very little to no privacy.

The “Enemy of the State” is a good movie that makes the NSA look like the worse people in the world. The Fourth Amendment rights was violated in every way possible by the NSA. In fact, Will Smith lost everything but his life, and he did not do anything wrong. My favorite part of the movie is when Will Smith led the NSA to the Pintero who was also seen on a video. Both of them were in a movie, and neither one of them caught on to what Will was doing. Will was the only one left without an injury or death. Actually, he was smart and dumb at the same time. The situation could have backfired on Will, but it worked in his favor. The NSA in this movie is viewed in a horrible way, because they killed several individuals, and tried to frame Will for

It provides an optimistic vision of surveillance in which, like Truman, American’s will overcome the burdens of surveillance and remain autonomous anonymous citizens even in the face of increasing technological surveillance capabilities. It presents the ills of such a situation of excessive surveillance and the danger it poses. Truman is driven to the brink of insanity when he realizes that his life is not what it seems, but more than that, it is a moral issue. It is not right that Truman is unable to live a normal life and make his own choices. The audience, both within the film and watching the film, sympathize with Truman whose wife and best friend were both cast to play these roles. The film draws attention to its constructed nature and the impossibility of maintaining such a level of surveillance and control, even over a single subject like Truman, evident in his eventual escape. Person of Interest does not question the surveillance state, it utilizes it. The program’s pilot does not criticize the technological circumstances upon which the plot is founded. Instead, by blatantly utilizing surveillance, through The Machine, it suggests that hyper-surveillance is a necessary aspect of preventing and fighting crime. It cites 9/11 for

Following this series of events, the NSA begins tracking and monitoring Robert. To determine his knowledge about the tape they use: global positioning systems (GPS), they implant a covert listening device in his phone, a tracking device in his shoe, and employ other sophisticated means of surveillance. Additionally, the ease of data collection, the overall volume of data amassed, as well the sheer propensity of the NSA’s pursuit of Robert, alludes to the notion of an almost Orwellian regime. The Orwellian concept of surveillance refers to

Furthermore, in V for Vendetta, provides various types of government surveillance such as: watching citizens on security cameras, having curfews for listening into people’s conversations. Likewise, in our own society, government surveillance is used all over the country. In the past, Government Surveillance mostly used detectives spying on criminals. However, due to improvements and advanced technology, Surveillance is fully capable of using technology for searching criminals and terrorists which now is capable of spying everyone. It is used in, hotels, banks, and heavily populated cities such as New York City, Chicago, and Las Vegas.