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+title = "Hackers (1995)"
+author = ["Michał Sapka"]
+date = 2024-11-17T20:26:00+01:00
+categories = ["reviews"]
+draft = false
+weight = 2016
+reviewSection = ["Movies"]
+image_dir = "reviews/screenshots"
+image_max_width = 765
+abstract = "My review of the movie Hackers"
+image = "reviews/covers/hackers.jpg"
+rating = 4
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+
+There are movies which I absolutely despised when I first saw them.
+They were loud, obnoxious, made little sense.
+Some of them, with passing time, grew on me.
+
+Hackers is a 1995 movie about, well, hackers.
+We start with Dade, an 11 year old geek, being arrested for hacking and crashing over 1,5k computer systems.
+He is sentenced to the worst imaginable sentence - an judge imposed mandated ban on using computer system till he reaches 18 years of age.
+Somehow we don't care what happened during those years, as we jump 7 years in the future (which seem to be undefined "now" of 1990s).
+Dade is hacking once again, and as a result he joins a group of hackers and becomes part of an conspiracy.
+
+Say what you will, _Hackers_ takes the hacker ethos pretty seriously and this is what escaped my teenage understanding.
+All of the main characters (who are using simply amazing handles, like Zero Cool or Cereal Killer) break into system for the fun of it.
+They are prosecuted by the government and media portrays them as dangerous individuals, but they are anything but maleficent.
+
+Now, there is a plot where the entire group is messing with an FBI agent by hacking IT systems and modifying data related to him.
+That's the closest where they come to having bad intentions, but it's presented as a cool game.
+They don't want to destroy him, just to mess with him.
+
+The hacking scenes make close to zero sense - but that's Hollywood for you.
+We haven't seen serious attempt at showing it before _Mr Robot_.
+Therefore, we can see past it.
+
+The authors did made some research.
+In one scene, Dade is tested from hacker knowledge.
+A series of famous (and existing!) books is presented to him, and he names them with cure (also real!) nicknames like "Orange Book".
+
+{{< image source="https://medium.com/@atroche/my-favourite-visuals-in-hackers-1995-79b3292d7475" class="centered" alt="Group of youg man sitting at a table, covered in coloroful ligting. They are talking and holding and orange book." file="hackers-1.webp" >}}
+Orange book in person
+{{< /image >}}
+
+But we can't see past the fashion.
+I have no idea _how_ anyone came with what we see here, but it's simply glorious.
+Just look!
+I refuse to believe, that this was not the official fashion of New York in the 90s.
+
+Also, the quotes.
+If there is a infinitely quotable movie, it is Hackers.
+_Hack the Planet_ or _"There is no right and wrong. There's only fun and boring_ should be recognized by anyone working in IT.
+I may be wrong, but I think there are questions about _Hackers_ on CompTIA Security+
+
+What the movies makes in its heart, it lacks in brains.
+The main villain is trying to get rich and put the blame on our hackers.
+The plan makes very little sense, as the _twist_ (which I will not reveal) would be very quickly discovered.
+This removes some of the tension, as it's not stopping the evil guy, but about who will go jail.
+
+{{< image source="https://medium.com/@atroche/my-favourite-visuals-in-hackers-1995-79b3292d7475" class="centered" alt="An white man is sitting in the center, back to us. In front of him is a huge screen with blue city-scape is in front of him." file="hackers-2.webp" >}}
+A typical data center
+{{< /image >}}
+
+The antagonist character is also weak.
+He has the most over the top quotes and reactions - even if he has the only hacker-worthy keyboard to be seen here.
+The acting is great, as no one busted out laughing, but no points here.
+
+_Hackers_ is a fun little movie, with a huge soul.
+It's dumb, loud and over-stylized.
+By any means I would not call it "good".
+But it's also one the few movies which show the soul of a hacker.
+I think everyone should see it at least once.
+It's not longer a bad thriller, it's a now a fun and cool cult movie.
+
+> You wage wars, murder, cheat, lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals. Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity.
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 We've got 88 minutes of great SciFi detective work which has already gone to history as a modern classic.
 Enough said that it smart, makes sense and it's worth to experience without spoilers.
 
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 However, the biggest problem with _Mars Express_ is its older peers.
 This film takes from numerous other movies - not only the _big 2_, but also 2001, _Akira_, _Armitage III_, and even some Cronenberg.
 All of this works great - never have I felt that anything is a pointless reference[^fn:1].