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+title = "Johnny Mnemonic (1995)"
+author = ["Michał Sapka"]
+date = 2024-06-11T15:52:00+02:00
+categories = ["brainrot"]
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+abstract = "My mirco reviview of the cyberpunk classic"
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+One plus of the linear-tv age of the past is that I've seen movies I would have no change otherwise.
+Polish stations tried to put as many new blockbusters as possible.
+Other times they had to resort to movies of lesser fame, like the hero of the day - _Johnny Mnemonic_.
+
+Willian Gibson, the father of modern _Cyberpunk_ genre, doesn't have much luck when it comes to movies.
+_Neuromancer_ is finally getting an adaptation, but unfortunately it will be a TV show[^fn:1].
+His _Alien III_ script was rejected.
+At this moment, his only legacy in this medium is _Johnny Mnemonic_.
+Luckily, it's an awesome legacy!
+
+{{< image class="centered" source="https://madmuseum.org/events/johnny-mnemonic" alt="Keanu Reeves in metal VR goggles grimming his teeth. The helmet covers most of his face." file="johny-mnemonic-1.jpg" >}}
+This looks like something I want!
+Screw that plastic toy from Apple.
+{{< /image >}}
+
+{{< image class="centered" source="https://madmuseum.org/events/johnny-mnemonic" alt="A futurstic CGI city resembling cyberspace" file="johny-mnemonic-2.jpg" >}}
+This was the cyberspace we were promised.
+{{< /image >}}
+
+The story is what he does best - a classic story in a cybernetic world.
+Johnny is a courier who smuggles information.
+The trick is that he is not smuggling them on tapes but in his own brain.
+This time he overdid it and loaded too much data (320 gigs!) overflowing his capacity.
+He needs to get it out and to do it _fast_.
+It won't be easy as the data is _hot_ and yakuza and gigantic corporation is trying to stop him.
+
+_Neuromancer_ is a heist story with a twist, _Johnny Mnemonic_ is a fugitive story with a twist.
+For what it's worth, I found the story to be great.
+There is nothing profound, nothing makes you scratch your head.
+It's story about a smuggler and the whole world trying to kill him.
+
+The worst part is the acting.
+It's Keanu Reeves at his most mediocre, single faced act.
+Even Takashi Kitano seems to be bored on set.
+I have no idea why, but **no** actor seems to be invested.
+
+{{< rating 4.0 "johny-mnemonic.jpg" >}}
+Cover
+{{< /rating >}}
+
+But everything else works.
+First, the movie looks great.
+All special effects are selling vision of this vision of near future - be it the scenes of high raise buildings, slums, or cyberspace.
+It all looks like one would expect (no sky _the color of TV turned to a dead channel_ though, which is a shame).
+
+Talking about cyberspace, when have we ruined the way we talked about computers?
+_Johnny..._ has all the Gibson's words, like Ice-breakers.
+It's magical and hypnotic.
+We live in world of his novels (with corporations being more powerful than nations, internet everywhere, or the destruction of environment) but this is what we lost?
+It's so dull and dry!
+I don't want App, I want "visual interface".
+
+I may be looking at this movie through rose-tainted cyber-visors, but I was expecting a terrible movie.
+I saw as a teen and loved it.
+But somehow, after all this years _Johnny Mnemonic_ holds up.
+I loved it.
+
+[^fn:1]: It's a sign of the times.
+    Platforms want to get as much from every license, a _Neuromancer_ is as hot as SciFi goes.
+    This means that it will most likely be expanded into self-parody, with one unnecessary thread after another.
+    And _Neuromaner_ is already structured as a **movie**!