Reston Industries, Digital Matrix Inc., and LOOKER (Light Ocular Oriented Kinetic Emotive Responses) were all the important names other than the characters. Don't worry I'll explain them all.
Reston Industries is a mega corporation that dabbles in all kinds of things. It is the parent company of Digital Matrix Inc., a company that specifically deals with using computer technology to advertise and sell goods. LOOKER is a Digital Matrix product. Using light, it is a method of hypnotizing its target such that they become suggestable to buying products.
Got all that? Good.
Whatever came to mind when you saw the movie title "Looker" you probably didn't think it was an acronym. That's fine because the movie title is a double entendre. It serves as an acronym for the Digital Matrix device, but it also defines the women in the movie as well. These supermodel types were being killed and they were all connected to Digital Matrix Inc., and they were all lookers.
The concept of this Michael Crichton movie was good: a company that digitizes people to use their likeness in commercials--deep fake anyone!?!--and with those same commercials seeks to hypnotize the viewers so that they buy what's being sold. Too bad the movie didn't have a hypnotic effect on me to make me like it. I just couldn't get past the poor acting from the blond airheads. Even their names were what would come to mind when thinking of mindless eye candy-- Tina, Cindy, Susan, Lisa, Candy. Ugh.
As a sci-fi concept this movie was quite brilliant, they just didn't do a good job applying that brilliance. The dramatic and thriller scenes were undramatic and unthrilling while the climax was anticlimactic. If only they could have used the Digital Matrix hypnotizing technology on real movie viewers.
Reston Industries is a mega corporation that dabbles in all kinds of things. It is the parent company of Digital Matrix Inc., a company that specifically deals with using computer technology to advertise and sell goods. LOOKER is a Digital Matrix product. Using light, it is a method of hypnotizing its target such that they become suggestable to buying products.
Got all that? Good.
Whatever came to mind when you saw the movie title "Looker" you probably didn't think it was an acronym. That's fine because the movie title is a double entendre. It serves as an acronym for the Digital Matrix device, but it also defines the women in the movie as well. These supermodel types were being killed and they were all connected to Digital Matrix Inc., and they were all lookers.
The concept of this Michael Crichton movie was good: a company that digitizes people to use their likeness in commercials--deep fake anyone!?!--and with those same commercials seeks to hypnotize the viewers so that they buy what's being sold. Too bad the movie didn't have a hypnotic effect on me to make me like it. I just couldn't get past the poor acting from the blond airheads. Even their names were what would come to mind when thinking of mindless eye candy-- Tina, Cindy, Susan, Lisa, Candy. Ugh.
As a sci-fi concept this movie was quite brilliant, they just didn't do a good job applying that brilliance. The dramatic and thriller scenes were undramatic and unthrilling while the climax was anticlimactic. If only they could have used the Digital Matrix hypnotizing technology on real movie viewers.