{"id":404351,"date":"2022-02-09T23:00:43","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T20:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-kimi-review-steven-soderberghs-thriller-for-the-age-of-isolation\/"},"modified":"2022-02-09T23:00:43","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T20:00:43","slug":"watch-kimi-review-steven-soderberghs-thriller-for-the-age-of-isolation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-kimi-review-steven-soderberghs-thriller-for-the-age-of-isolation\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Kimi&#8217; Review: Steven Soderbergh&#8217;s Thriller for the Age of Isolation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3cfdba26ae7\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3cfdba26ae7\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-kimi-review-steven-soderberghs-thriller-for-the-age-of-isolation\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Kimi_Review_Steven_Soderberghs_Thriller_for_the_Age_of_Isolation%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Kimi&#8217; Review: Steven Soderbergh&#8217;s Thriller for the Age of Isolation&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-kimi-review-steven-soderberghs-thriller-for-the-age-of-isolation\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Kimi_Review_Steven_Soderberghs_Thriller_for_the_Age_of_Isolation%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Kimi&#8217; Review: Steven Soderbergh&#8217;s Thriller for the Age of Isolation&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-kimi-review-steven-soderberghs-thriller-for-the-age-of-isolation\/#optional_screen_reader\" >optional screen reader<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-kimi-review-steven-soderberghs-thriller-for-the-age-of-isolation\/#Read_More_About\" >Read More About:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Kimi_Review_Steven_Soderberghs_Thriller_for_the_Age_of_Isolation%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Kimi&#8217; Review: Steven Soderbergh&#8217;s Thriller for the Age of Isolation&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Kimi_Review_Steven_Soderberghs_Thriller_for_the_Age_of_Isolation%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Kimi&#8217; Review: Steven Soderbergh&#8217;s Thriller for the Age of Isolation&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        For a couple of decades now, Steven Soderbergh\u2019s \u201clittle\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a> \u2014 the lo-fi dramas, often quirky thrillers, that he makes as palate cleansers in between his higher profile projects \u2014 have been a pleasurably idiosyncratic, off-on-his-own-cloud thing. Some of them are good (like \u201cBubble\u201d and \u201cSide Effects\u201d), some are meh (like \u201cHaywire\u201d), and one is great (\u201cThe Girlfriend Experience\u201d); none of them make much of an impact in the marketplace. Yet you feel the pulse of filmmaking fervor in them. You could say they\u2019re Soderbergh\u2019s protest against blockbusterization, a way of reminding his audience, and maybe himself, that a few simple elements \u2014 story, actors, camera angles \u2014 can still add up to what a movie <em>is<\/em>. Only now, at a time of slow-motion crisis in the industry (<em>will audiences come back to theaters?<\/em>) and seriously over-inflated budgets, Soderbergh\u2019s latest little movie, the nimble and sinister cyber-age corporate thriller \u201cKimi,\u201d plays as an object lesson in showing us a way forward. It\u2019s a welcome reminder that less, in the movies, can sometimes be more.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also an art-suspense pastiche that\u2019s clever enough to hook you. More than half the film is set in a spacious, second-floor renovated industrial loft condo in Seattle, where Angela Childs (Zo\u00eb Kravitz), a waifish millennial in a wavy bob of blue hair, stares out her window, taking in the late-morning sun as she checks out the neighbors in the apartment building across the street (a couple of them look back). She then turns to her computer screen, where she works as a voice-stream interpreter for The Amygdala Corporation, which markets a Siri-like virtual assistant called Kimi.<\/p>\n<p>We know that today\u2019s faceless tech giants \u2014 Google, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> \u2014 don\u2019t <em>just<\/em> run on algorithms, that there are human intermediaries manipulating the action behind the scenes. Yet how all that operates remains vague (which is part of its monolithic design). Angela, who one worked for Facebook, now has a job that entails listening in on the streams of commands that Kimi receives and steering the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a> in how it performs. It\u2019s a task she can do from home, and that\u2019s one of several factors that combine to give her an air of agoraphobia. There\u2019s the pandemic. There\u2019s the fact that she\u2019s still recovering from a dark chapter in her past. And there\u2019s her <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> vibe of hipster standoffishness, which extends to the lawyer in the apartment across the street (Byron Bowers), who she summons on texts for booty calls but is too distant to actually hang out with. On the computer, she talks to her mother (Robin Givens), her shrink (Emily Kuroda), and a vodka-guzzling Romanian tech consultant (Alex Dobrenko) who insists on calling her \u201cHotness\u201d (explaining that #MeToo is still 50 years away in Romania). \u201cKimi,\u201d among other things, is a projection of the world-mediated-through-a-screen Covid isolation blues.<\/p>\n<p>Adding to the solitary vibe is that on this particular day, Angela hears a stream that gives her the chills, with threatening noises (a fight, a struggle, maybe a squelched scream) buried under a din of pulsating music. So she scrapes away the other sonic tracks, the better to hear the crime that may have taken place. The dude from Romania provides her with a dummy admin code to tap into the computer the noises came from.<\/p>\n<p>In case you were wondering, yes, we have been here before. Not specifically in a Soderbergh film, but in \u201cThe Conversation\u201d (where Gene Hackman played a solitary surveillance snoop who realizes he may have recorded a murder), and in a handful of other cinematic references that Soderbergh does winking homage to: \u201cBlow-Up,\u201d \u201cRear Window,\u201d \u201cThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo\u201d \u2014 and, in a funny way, the recycling spirit of Brian De Palma, who\u2019s evoked through the film\u2019s voluptuous old-fashioned musical score, by Cliff Martinez, which sounds like an homage to the Hitchcock\/Herrmann homages of Pino Donaggio.<\/p>\n<p>Zo\u00eb Kravitz holds the screen with her cool austerity, her impassive fa\u00e7ade hinting at heavy anxieties just beneath. When Angela uncovers video footage, through Kimi, of what those noises were, it\u2019s disturbing in the extreme, the way that the homicides in \u201cMichael Clayton\u201d and \u201cCrimes and Misdemeanors\u201d were. We see murder in the movies almost every day, but it\u2019s the rare film that\u2019s grounded in the real world enough to remind us that murder is something ordinary people commit. Strung out with fear, Angela is, at long last, driven out of her apartment by the order to share her discovery with the authorities at work, who have promised to call the FBI. The lobby floor of the Amygdala office is out of a technocratic sci-fi movie (the future is here! At least in elevator banks), but it may be less scary than the people she\u2019s reporting to.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKimi\u201d marks the first time that Soderbergh has collaborated with the screenwriter David Koepp, who has long been a rock-solid mainstream talent (\u201cJurassic Park,\u201d \u201cCarlito\u2019s Way,\u201d \u201cPanic Room\u201d), and the essential design of Koepp\u2019s script \u2014 everything about it, really \u2014 is standard issue: the isolated hacker heroine, the discovery of a crime linked in shadowy ways to corporate malfeasance, her scheme to do an end run around the conspiracy, the whole thing culminating in a last-act action face-off.<\/p>\n<p>So why did I say that \u201cKimi\u201d shows us a way forward? Because the fun of the movie lies in the modestly budgeted sparkle and foreboding ingenuity of Soderbergh\u2019s direction. He\u2019s become the Samuel Fuller of minimalist indie kicks. His filmmaking joy comes through everywhere \u2014 in the way that as the (uncredited) cinematographer, he frames each shot like a sentence in a story; in the hypnotically cryptic exchanges between The Amygdala\u2019s CEO (Derek DelGaudio) and a black-op associate (Jaime Camil); in Rita Wilson\u2019s insinuating small performance as a \u201creassuring\u201d office manager; in the way that the camera rushes up to Angela like a stalking demon during her existential dash through a Seattle of alienating streets and embracing protesters; and in how a nail gun becomes an immensely satisfying weapon. If we\u2019re going to wind up watching anything in our movie theaters besides Marvel fantasies, we need a return to the spirit of this kind of filmmaking. The kind that can coax thrills out of something human.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-tags \/\/ a-children-icon-bullet lrv-u-font-family-primary u-letter-spacing-012 lrv-u-line-height-large lrv-u-color-brand-primary\">\n<h2 id=\"optional-screen-reader\" class=\"lrv-a-screen-reader-only\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"optional_screen_reader\"><\/span>\n        optional screen reader  <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<nav class=\"o-nav  o-nav lrv-u-border-b-1 u-border-color-brand-secondary-40 lrv-u-border-t-1 lrv-u-text-align-center lrv-u-padding-b-025 u-padding-t-050@desktop u-padding-t-050@tablet u-padding-t-050@mobile-max lrv-u-margin-t-2 lrv-u-margin-b-2\" data-dropdown=\"\">\n<h4 id=\"\" class=\"o-nav__title lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-font-family-secondary o-nav__title a-content-ignore u-line-height-140 u-letter-spacing-0002\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Read_More_About\"><\/span>Read More About:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/nav>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n  !function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n      n.callMethod ?\n          n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n    };\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n  }(window, document, 'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '586935388485447');\n  fbq('init', '315552255725686');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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