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Johnny is a data trafficker who has undergone cybernetic surgery to have a data storage system implanted in his head. The system allows him to store digital data too sensitive to risk transmission on computer networks. To keep the cargo secure, the data is locked by a password known only to the intended recipient.
Johnny Mnemonic is a 1995 cyberpunk action film [6] directed by Robert Longo in his feature directorial debut. William Gibson, who wrote the 1981 short story, wrote the screenplay. The film, set in 2021, portrays a dystopian future racked by a tech-induced plague, awash with conspiracies, and dominated by megacorporations and organized crime.
The story is narrated by a data courier (to whom the story’s title, ‘Johnny Mnemonic’, refers). He is able to store vast amounts of sensitive data in his head, thanks to a cybernetic implant, and earns a living by trafficking information for criminal bosses or large corporations.
Johnny Mnemonic: Directed by Robert Longo. With Keanu Reeves, Dina Meyer, Ice-T, Takeshi Kitano. A data courier, literally carrying a data package inside his head, must deliver it before he dies from the burden or is killed by the Yakuza.
- (77K)
- Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
- Robert Longo
- 1995-05-26
In this film based on the William Gibson story, Johnny (Keanu Reeves) is a data courier who has a secret stash of information implanted into his mind. However, the data will kill Johnny if he...
- (40)
- Robert Longo
- R
- Keanu Reeves
Johnny, a mnemonic data courier, is hired to carry 320 gigabytes of crucial information to safety from the Pharmacom corporation. Pursued by Yakuza agents and a crazed cyborg, Johnny must deliver the data or die in twenty-four hours.
Despite 25 years of dismissal and mockery, Johnny Mnemonic remains a visionary forecast of the networked society. No pre-millennium Hollywood production captured the anxieties and exhaustion of living online so well, despite studio butchery that deprived audiences of writer William Gibson and director Robert Longo’s ambitious vision.
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