Hello everyone! During
this period of quarantine I watched a lot of movies and tv series but one in
particular got me hooked: Mr Robot. It isn’t the type of tv series that is easy
to describe, but I’ll try to do it without giving away huge spoilers.
It’s an American
tv series that revolves around Elliot Anderson, and his inseparable black hoodie, inside which he hides himself from the rest of
the world.
By day, he’s a
cybersecurity engineer at AllSafe, a company that is responsible of the
security of one of the biggest corporations, E Corp, renamed Evil Corp by Elliot, because it ruthlessly controls everything in
the world, from banking to politics.
At night, instead,
he’s an anarchic and fervent hacker. As
he says, he “hacks everyone”, even his friends
and therapist just to discover the dark and deep secrets that everyone hides.
He’s highly
paranoid, he sees random people in the crowd and believes they are coming at
him, he’s anxious, depressed but very intelligent: nobody can hack and use
computers like he does.
Elliot has a
dream: he wants to save the world from Evil Corp, injustice and broken systems
just by hacking from his computer.
Fsociety, a shady
group of hackers wants to take E Corp down too; they’re led by a mysterious man
called Mr Robot that might have a connection with Elliot’s past.
So Elliot is approached
by Fsociety that wants him at all cost. Reluctant in the beginning, then he
decides to join. He has one more reason to join Fsociety, one more personal
reason: his father died due to a toxic waste leak from one of the E Corp’s
facilities, but the company was big that it used its power to cover the leak.
But the heart of
the series his Elliot’s mind, his internal battle brings us inside his mental
state, his thoughts on everything and the environment around him. His dialogues
with the audience (us) are designed to help us interpret Elliot's world, but
because of his mental illness, he’s an unreliable narrator, that leaves us uncertain
whether what he tells us and we’re seeing on the screen is actually what is
happening. This causes confusion in the viewer who struggles to understand
the story and keep track of the facts. However, in the end, everything is going to be clarified.
So, what makes Mr
Robot so special? Here are the answers:
It’s authentic and feels so real: even though it’s just
fiction the topics dealt with are recurrent and part of real life. So Mr Robot
brings us into what is the real world, seen through Elliot’s eyes. Not by
chance it’s been defined as the best tv series of the decade.
There are moments that you will remember forever
because of their peculiarity and unicity, moments that are questionable but
will stay in our mind anyway, because
they’ll touch you deeply. It’s not an ordinary series: it has won a Grammy, several Emmys and many other
awards.
You must watch the series because of Rami Malek is
outstanding, he brilliantly plays Elliot:
he really gives life to a very gripping character and giving you the opportunity to enter
Elliot’s blurred mind.
MARIA
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