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Rolling Stone Menu ‘Profile’: A Journalist, a Terrorist and a Tale Told Completely Online
An undercover reporter tries to bait an ISIS recruiter and gets in over her head in this gimmicky it’s-all-happening-on-your-computer-screen thriller
By BAZELEVS/Focus Features
A computer screen chimes to life. Windows proliferate. Notifications ping. Video-call boxes pop up, tabs multiply, messenger apps ticker endlessly, a stream of bite-size demands for attention. And in the middle of it all, an increasingly frantic, Extremely Online female freelance journalist with money worries and a deadline to meet, makes a series of very poor and deeply unprofessional decisions.
But enough about my average Wednesday evening we’re here to talk about the newly released
âProfileâ is the terrorist thriller as IT session
By Mark Feeney Globe Staff,Updated May 12, 2021, 11:57 a.m.
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Valene Kane in Profile. Courtesy of BAZELEVS and Focus Features
âProfileâ is based on a true story, from 2014, about an English reporter who masqueraded online as a Muslim convert to infiltrate ISIS. Thatâs straightforward enough.
Whatâs even more straightforward â except that at the same time it isnât at all straightforward â is how the film plays out. âProfileâ consists entirely of screen shots: Skype and FaceTime calls, Facebook messaging, the reporterâs desktop, Google searches, even, yes, a few cat videos (the demands of Web verisimilitude must be met). This is straightforward, because thatâs how the events happened: virtually. Itâs not straightforward, because seeing only small screens on a big screen is not how movies are normally viewed: cinematically.
SYNOPSIS:
An undercover British journalist infiltrates the online propaganda channels of the so-called Islamic State, only to be sucked in by her recruiter.
The first thing that sticks out about
Profile is that director Timur Bekmambetov’s screen-centric thriller uses the previous Facebook layout, which checks out as the film actually played some genre festivals starting as far back as 2018. However, the importance of studying and combating Internet radicalization of all kinds has only grown in urgency, meaning the film is already aging well.
Valene Kane is Amy, a British journalist hoping to acquire a staff position by impressing her chief editor Vick (Christine Adams) by going undercover online with Islamic extremists to extrapolate information on how they persuade young European women – sometimes teenagers – to give up their lives and traveled to Syria joining the cause. Naturally, if successful, this would be a huge article, albeit a dangerous endeavor. More intriguing
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