alexistaiwo:
I expect "Searching" to walk away with a couple of awards this year.

Nice concept and storytelling.
It tells everything about the modern world.
People who don't give a damn about you won't hesitate to fake it just for social media likes and shares.

I can't help wondering what will happen if a Nigerian father has a missing daughter and one yeye funeral company send him mail advertising their services.


God will entertain visitors



8.6/10.

Seunpaul01:


The only plot that failed the movie was the Funeral Association or whatever that sent the guy mail. We don't know who owns the association or how it come on. And the lady was found at the funeral without the man of the dead.

Beorn:


Oya, Dig your way into more blunders out of that blunder make we see.

alexistaiwo:




I am 15 years old but we aren't here to deliberate on my age, are we?

alexistaiwo:
I expect "Searching" to walk away with a couple of awards this year.
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troubleseller:

troubleseller:
Not sure it will. It's too low budget and very low key.

troubleseller:
Not sure it will. It's too low budget and very low key.

KoiceReloaded:


Cyberpunk is a combination of low life and high tech in a futuristic setting, but in a broader definition, can also include elements of hacking and espionage, involving electronic devices.

Sounds familiar? Yup. SEARCHING

Beorn:


With the involvement of electronic devices, suffice it to say every modern film with people making use of phones, automatically qualifies it as cyberpunk. LMAO. Try another excuse.

There's no futuristic setting or advanced technology that's out of the ordinary. If you continue in this path, na to dig your E-grave remain.

Seunpaul01:


The only plot that failed the movie was the Funeral Association or whatever that sent the guy mail. We don't know who owns the association or how it come on. And the lady was found at the funeral without the man of the dead.

Beorn:


Searching doesn't belong to cyberpunk subgenre of sci-fi. I doubt you understand what cyberpunk is all about.

KoiceReloaded:


Notice that I highlighted the hacking and espionage part. And cyberpunk doesn't always have to have a futuristic settings or advance technology. Sometimes, hacking is enough.

Die Hard 4 is cyberpunk. Imitation Game is cyberpunk, and Hackers (both 1995 and 2016) were cyberpunk.

Don't take my word for it, check the link below for these movies:

- Cyberpunk Galore and Related Interests

I think I have successfully dug myself out.

PS: The tv show, Mr. Robot is also cyberpunk.

Cyberpunk is often described as "high tech and low life" - a dystopic world, in which hyper-capitalism (or the corporate state) has created a tiny upper class and a massive, disenfranchised lower class. This lower class is inhabited by sleazy characters who have limited access to the technological advances that have benefited the upper class, and so the poor masses are forced to find their own improvised versions of these tools. These improvised resources generally include jury rigged cybernetic enhancements, which is where the "cyber" part of "Cyberpunk" comes from.


Note: Almost all Cyberpunk media is futuristic , but most futuristic media is not Cyberpunk.

Beorn:




https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/114587/what-separates-a-cyberpunk-setting-from-a-futuristic-setting


See highlighted, where are those parts in Searching? One minute you dismiss the hacking and espionage in Strike Back and 24 when I trying to point out the error in your assertion, next minute you're using hacking to categorize Searching as cyberpunk. You can't eat your cake and have it. Searching can't be classified as a cyberpunk. Impossible!! Even if you remove the futuristic angle, other branches of cyberpunk rendered your argument invalid.

Cyberpunk is a science fiction genre in which the future world is portrayed as one in which society is largely controlled by computers, at the expense of daily life and social order...Rebellion against large corporations and established organizations is a key aspect of cyberpunk. As such, main characters are often portrayed as alienated and marginalized by society.

Cyberpunk's protagonists are hackers, rockers, and other cultural rebels, clinging to a cult of individualism in a culture characterized by corporate control and mass conformity. These protagonists are adept at appropriating the materials of popular culture and making them speak to alternative needs and interests; they also know how to tap into the vast digital database to access information about corporations and their secret conspiracies, or to spread resistant messages despite powerful mechanisms of top-down control.

samuelchimmy:
The spy that dumped me' 2018

One of the most hillarous movies of 2018.....
Ah swear this movie will captivate you with a Lott a punch lines...
Though the normal hollywood CIA agent voyage to the Europe.... But this one comes with a twist as the two supposed agents are not really agents but two grossly funny single ladies (like two bunch of losers)
Rating 9/10

Beorn:
BTW, KoiceReloaded, can you kindly point out the hacking that happened in Searching. I'm curious to know where the hacking came from.

KoiceReloaded:


From the same forum you quoted:


Sounds like 21st century to me.

And...


Sounds like the average outlaw hackers of the 21st century to me.


24 and Strike Back principal themes were counterterrorism not espionage. Says a lot.

KoiceReloaded:


Hacking/digital surveillance/electronics espionage... same sh*t, different day.

KoiceReloaded:


It has won a couple of awards already.

Beorn:


You're shockingly shooting yourself in the foot. From one of the posts you highlighted

"Cyberpunk's protagonists are hackers, rockers, and other cultural rebels, clinging to a cult
of individualism in a culture characterized by corporate control and mass conformity. These
protagonists are adept at appropriating the materials of popular culture and making them
speak to alternative needs and interests; they also know how to tap into the vast digital
database to access information about corporations and their secret conspiracies, or to spread
resistant messages despite powerful mechanisms of top-down control."

Beorn:

Show me where the emboldened happened in Searching. Being a hacker but not in the setting described in that highlighted part, doesn't qualify a movie to be cyberpunk. None of what you highlighted happened in Searching except that there's use of computers or surveillance. If using camera makes films, cyberpunk, then every romance movie out there with as much as use of a phone becomes cyberpunk movie as well. Strike Back and 24 had computers and hacking in them. Don't know what you're on about. Is hacking the main theme in Searching? It's no longer about hacking but now about it being the main theme or not. Oga, stay one place and stop bending your points anyhow.

Beorn:


You're confused honestly. I said show me the hacking in Searching and you're bringing up more words.

Only you - hacking, digital surveillance, espionage, electronics, electronic espionage, main theme and non main theme.

Even Nigerian leaders don't twist as much as you do. You'll soon include Nairaland to your plethora of examples.

troubleseller:
I thought Imitation Game was biography. Koice has started ooo

KoiceReloaded:


Nah. You're the confused one. Hacking and spying on people with CCTV and spycams and what have you, are doing the same thing, but in different ways - espionage. When I said hacking, I meant everything that has to do with espionage. Too bad you didn't understand, and choose to laugh at your own ignorance.

Ishilove:
KoiceReloaded and Beorn, I see the bromance is becoming a little rough this evening, eh, lads?

Beorn:


How To Get Away With Murder had hacking, spying on people, digital surveillance, cloning of phones in it, therefore it's a sci-fi, a social science sci-fi and a cyberpunk series. Buwahahaha. KoiceReloaded has lost it.


Brethren, what we're witnessing now is what Thanos described when he said, "you're not the only one burdened with knowledge," to Ironman. Too much movie knowledge has made KoiceReloaded go bonkers. He needs your prayers.

KoiceReloaded is in the Get Out movie situation; something has taken control of account/sense of reasoning, while he's locked away in his subconscious, crying for our help. Hang in there, Koice, help is on the way.

KoiceReloaded:


Where did I shoot myself in the foot? Top hackers do the highlighted all the time. Can you explain how I shot myself in foot?



Hacking in a more simplistic term is gaining excess to a chip powered electronics device discreetly. Hacking doesn't always have to involve tapping on a keyboard. Hacking can simply involve a digital surveillance like CCTV.

Strike Back and 24 has computers in term, but the principal themes weren't focus on those computers, were they? No. Instead, the themes were focused on the activities of the protagonists.