Rating: ★★★★☆ (Four stars. Would lose half a star for the awkward sex scene involving a scanner, but honestly, it’s kind of brilliant.)
Jordan has a comfortable 78—respectable, but boring. That is, until he meets a mysterious artist named Zero (played with manic energy by a young Samantha Morton), who teaches him how to "game" the Index by intentionally lying. The paradox? The more deliberately you lie, the more the Index flags you as "complex," raising your score. index of identity 2003
Film Twitter (sorry, X) is divided. Gen Z viewers call it "a core text of late capitalism." Millennials call it "depressing but obvious." Boomers just ask why everyone is so obsessed with their "numbers." Rating: ★★★★☆ (Four stars