Question

Based off the movie "Enemy of the State".

1).How realistic, in general terms, is the movie (i.e. the NSA’s capabilities, forensic artifacts that Mr. Dean leaves throughout the movie as he uses his credit cards, makes phone calls, drives his car past highway cameras, etc.)?

2) If you were a Computer Forensics Examiner assigned to process Mr. Dean’s electronic devices (laptop, mobile phone, etc.), would you find artifacts that supported his innocence or guilt in terms of the claims made against him by the Government?

3) Compare and contrast how you believe the movie-going audience of 1998 and the movie-going audience of 2018 would treat the story’s overall plausibility. Do you believe people today are more open to believing the United States Government’s ability and desire to engage in the kinds of surveillance (both legal and illegal) depicted in the movie? Explain.

Answer 1

Yes the movie was realistic though it was ahead of time during 1998. There is reality element in every fiction. Being Hollywood, the market or say economy is ahead in many perspectives. Therefore in some country movie be seen as realistic and some as futuristic. And same applies to the movie going to 1998 audience or audience 2018. Its purely depends which development phase we are in.

Technology growing enormously. Every time we see new picture and analytics or say ways it can bring efficiencies to someone life. From a movie perspective, if it was shot on recent time yes there would be possible we supported his innocence or guilt. However, it would or might have possible that time as well. But guess Jony Scott wanted the movie end that way