If a person had sailed his imagination in search of ghosts for films, the movie "The Takeover" would have been a ghost of a group of the most important Hollywood action films, and despite that, it remains a good copy of the poor Dutch action in numbers, and affected - to the extent of conformity and reproduction - by the Hollywood product.

And because cinema is not only an art, but rather an industry and trade, this carries the burdens of the calamities of the industry and the fluctuations of the commercial market, especially the imitation that small markets are forced into in countries such as the Netherlands, due to their limited capabilities and the limited consumer market. The Netherlands is a small country whose area does not reach 1% of the area Europe, and its population does not exceed 3.3% of the population of the European Union countries, and there are about 800 theaters on its territory, which is a relatively modest number.

Despite the major Dutch names in the field of visual arts, such as the most famous plastic artist Rembrandt, cinema - with its production requirements - did not succeed in reaching the forefront of the ranks in the world except through individual cases, and the spotlight was limited to the most famous documentary festival in the world, which is the Amsterdam Documentary Film Festival. (IDFA).

May Broad (or Mel) on a shocking date (Netflix)

The small and ambitious film industries in the world give the viewer a diversification and exposure to a different taste, where another language is tasted by the ear, and a visual taste that may be more concerned with aesthetics than American cinema, and in the movie "Occupation", the viewer also gives the viewer a more intense drama, where the harshness of isolation in which he lives appears. Humans, because electronic friendship and loneliness are constant companions of the heroine.

lovable villain

Despite this, the Dutch attempts to catch up with the world's cinema market do not stop, and among these attempts comes the movie "The Takeover" by director Anne-Marie van de Monde, which was a usual expression of that cinematic love for the character of the hacker, and expressing that The mystery that surrounds his life.

De Monde presented one of the films that were made with high professionalism and amazing mastery at the level of images, especially action scenes, although most of the action shots were general or medium-term, and left poverty in feelings between the scenes and the characters of the film, including the heroine.

Takeover follows hacker Mel Bandson (Holly May Broad) who undoes a sinister hack on a high-tech self-driving bus and inadvertently shuts down an international criminal network.

Consequently, she is subjected to revenge, and a murder charge is fabricated against her, and when she turns to the police, she is surprised by members of the criminal network within the police station.

Hacking between good and bad

The film contains two types of hackers, both evil by legal and official standards: the first type is the young Mel Bandson, who hacked into the systems of a military base in her teens and suspended her work due to the sound of planes disturbing the birds, and when she passed her teens, she formed what looks like a gang organization that targets networks Companies and banks that harm society without legal deterrent.

The second type of hacker - which represents the threatening opponent of the film's heroine and society - is that company that developed a virus to steal the personal data of self-driving bus riders, and that data is collected for the benefit of the Chinese government, which is also an illegal act.

Actor Frank Lammers (or Buddy), the most famous hacker in the movie (Netflix)

Hacker character Mel Bandson belongs to the "ethical villain" pattern, which is one of 4 patterns that the villains of police literature have been classified according to, and the most famous example of that model is Robin Hood, who used to steal money and property to distribute to the poor, and he is in this case He applies justice according to his own concept and without resorting to the social contract or the law that society recognized and agreed upon, and he is a champion of the poor, but he is also a criminal in some way.

The moral villain is one of 4 types preceded by the appearance of the pure evil, who practices evil due to his nature, the villain according to the situation and quarrels with the hero due to the conflict of interests between them, and finally the natural villain or natural forces such as earthquakes and volcanoes that the heroes face.

And the moral villain in the movie "Overtake" is that girl who protects her society from the authorities based on it, using her skills in computer and programming. Accidentally harming her interests, Bandson saves passengers on a self-driving bus from having their data leaked.

Bandson turned into a hero and a symbol of good, despite her lawlessness, and the gang was classified as the hero's opponent, despite the fact that it remained under the protection of the police - and it is responsible for enforcing the law - for nearly two-thirds of the business.

Original copies

The film begins with a group of scenes inside a military base, filmed in a way that inspires terror in the same scenes, large areas and anxious faces, and quick cuts of shots between grim faces and devices that were infected with a virus, and then turned off, to summon the most famous "hacker" in the country, whose name is "Buddy". (Actor Frank Lammers).

After 10 years have passed, we find the little "hacker" (Mel), the owner of the incident, who has become responsible for the safety of programs in a company belonging to the European Union, and in the course of her work she discovers a breach and treats it with a counter penetration.

The film directly recalls a more colorful version of Sandra Bullock's 1995 film The Net, but the latter packs a punch from start to finish.

The huge difference between the two films is evident in many aspects, but the most prominent of them is the plausibility, while the movie "The Network" presents an idea that seems unreasonable to the majority of viewers, which puts the film in a fantasy classification, to remain a field for entertainment, pleasure and imagination through the story of a woman waking up from her sleep To find that all the personal documents related to her no longer exist, and she embarks on a journey to prove her existence. The film was, at that time, a cry for help from human reduction in a group of digital documents that can be easily removed.

The two heroes stand in a temporary shelter instead of falling into the hands of the killers (Netflix)

As for the movie "Acquisition", it is about events that can be demonstrated on the ground from the coincidence of creating a criminal network of a virus with the aim of stealing the personal data of travelers, until it was discovered by chance and an attempt to nullify its work, but what is not reasonable is that naive romantic ending in the end, as the movie ends with everything Spectators want it and more.

In an attempt that seems completely deliberate to break the isolation experienced by the heroine, a romantic date is “fabricated” that ends before it begins with the young Thomas Dean (actor Gisa Wayne), who is completely different from her and appears to be a liar and rude, but she is forced to resort to him after she is threatened and the doors are closed. in her face.

The relationship between them continues with the succession of events, and while she was showing disgust for him, which was confirmed by the camera and the scenario with unambiguous scenes, love arises, and it is the harshest sign in the work that says simply: “You have to accept what life gives you, no matter how ugly and different it is, It's better than nothing."