A prisoner in a state-of-the-art penitentiary begins to question the purpose of the emotion-controlling drugs he's testing for a pharmaceutical genius.
Acting
Hemsworth's terrifyingly cheerful evil—imagine Thor went to Burning Man and got into biotech.
Direction
Kosinski's sterile beauty, all glass and ocean views masking rot.
Director
Joseph Kosinski
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on George Saunders' 2010 New Yorker short story 'Escape from Spiderhead'—Saunders called the film 'surreal' and praised Hemsworth's commitment to the character's unsettling optimism.
The film's 'N-40' love drug and real-world studies on oxytocin as 'trust spray' make this less speculative than you'd hope—DARPA's actually explored emotion-modifying weapons.
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