A movie like the The Bourne Ultimatum makes you wonder what sort of a world we might be living in. A world where the “war on terrorism” has given security agencies unlimited power to do whatever they feel is necessary to thwart “potential” danger.
Mobile and land line phones can be tapped, and email accounts hacked, with ease. Operatives can have you under surveillance within minutes, while “assets”, exterminators who are based all over the globe, prepare to “rub you out”, in operations that are coordinated from command centres thousands of miles away.
You want to choose the words you use in phone calls very carefully, because should you even inadvertently utter an otherwise classified or restricted codeword, that will be enough to awaken the behemoth.
It may seem fantastic and implausible, but just how far fetched is such a scenario really?
The absolutely unbelievable however is left to Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) who gallivants around the world undetected despite intensive efforts to find him, scuttles across rooftops and leaps between buildings with ease, and walks away from bomb blasts and car crashes with barely a scratch.
Ah well, this is escapism after all, and thanks to a little help from some friends, Bourne brings the movie careering to its inevitable conclusion.
Who’d have thought the best way to subvert the system was from within?
I have not watch Bourne Ultimatum yet (still waiting for DVD release) but a moive I watched recently ,”Shooter”, also had me wondering what sort of a world we might be living in, given that security agencies have unlimited power to do whatever they feel is necessary (often black ops) to thwart certain situation they deem “potential†danger.