{"id":11841,"date":"2015-07-15T19:55:36","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T23:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=11841"},"modified":"2015-12-09T17:03:07","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T22:03:07","slug":"film-deep-web-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=11841","title":{"rendered":"Film: Deep Web (2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"DeepWeb2015_poster_s\"<\/a>Film<\/strong>: Excellent<\/p>\n

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Genre:<\/strong>\u00a0 Documentary \/ Internet<\/p>\n

Synopsis:<\/strong>\u00a0Fascinating tale of Ross Ulbricht, a programming whiz whose anarchic leanings led to the creation of online merchant Silk Road, a site that enabled the purchase of hard drugs.<\/p>\n

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A kind of companion piece to Alex Winter\u2019s Napster documentary Downloaded<\/a><\/strong> (2013), Deep Web<\/strong> refers to the virtual benthic layer of data \u2013 financial, private, governmental, and military \u2013 which is inaccessible accept to industry personnel or users of Tor, now an open source program originally developed by the U.S. military.<\/p>\n

Deep Web<\/strong> is comprised of three parts: an overview of what resides in the deep web; the creation of Silk Road, a website that facilitated the buying \/ selling of assorted drugs using Bitcoin in a kind of Amazon \/ Ebay marketplace, replete with buyer\u2019s guides, seller ratings, and merchandise quality reviews; and the arrest and conviction of Ross Ulbricht, creator of Silk Road, and an American charged by the FBI for facilitating the sale of narcotics and allegedly hiring contract killers to wipe out rivals.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a surreal narrative that ultimately veers from a tale of anarchists and idealists determined to weaken bad government policies (namely America\u2019s ineffective War on Drugs) to what may be a hastily built case against Ulbricht.<\/p>\n

Featuring a wide selection of interviews and narration by Keanu Reeves (who co-starred with Winter in the Bill & Ted franchise, and Winter\u2019s crazy 1993 comedy Freaked<\/strong>), Deep Web<\/strong> ultimately builds towards a conclusion in which nothing is resolved, but its message becomes clear as the film closes and Ulbricht remains in prison: the guidelines currently applied to gathering and assessing the credibility of physical evidence should be applied with equal accuracy<\/em> to evidence used to prosecute offenders of digital crimes.<\/p>\n

Now, Ulbricht should\u2019ve known his dream of building and maintaining a site that enabled the sale of actual hardcore drugs was fated to destroy his life \u2013 there\u2019s no way any international legal body would\u2019ve sat still, especially when rival (and less idealistic) sites could sell contract killings or worse, bomb or biological warfare components \u2013 and Winter doesn\u2019t build the film as a rallying cry for the release of Ulbricht, but there are enough arguments from anarchists, legal figures, and colleagues that question the validity of some of the evidence, and the professionalism of certain authorities within the prosecution team.<\/p>\n

Whether one believes there\u2019s a virgin victim at the centre of Deep Web<\/strong> is subjective, but there is something peculiar when much of the prosecution\u2019s evidence is suppressed and off-limits to the defense, making the case against Ulbricht seem too neat, and effectively neutering his lawyer\u2019s only means of defense.<\/p>\n

Deep Web<\/strong> (currently screening in theatres, including the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema<\/a>) unfolds like a cyber-thriller with clashing views, grey moral zones, and idealistic figures involved in a game of whack-a-mole, but it also feels like the first of a two-part saga, with perhaps a follow-up film materializing after Ulbricht\u2019s fate and ongoing appeals have reached their final resolutions.<\/p>\n

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