Pick 32: Slick Flick Pick: Ghostman in the Machine--Where High-Tech Thrills Greet Low-Tech Kills (Blackhat, 2015) **With Red Devil's Aural Appearance**

Greetings, Cinematic Fanatics! Allow us the pleasure of ushering you through both the realm of the digital and the analogue, the melding of the automated and carbon, flesh and blood created, the skylines of the Pearl River Delta as it splashes into Hong Kong City and weaponized, mechanized motherboards of circuitry, next to the buff Adonis Hathaway, Chen Lien looks itty bitty, the legit shiz hacker speak is well-researched and witty, this slick flick transports us all over the world, from the windy city to the angel laden city to Hong Kong City,  the streets of Malaysia and Jakarta (as exotic as their inhabitants you pity;) this is a gorgeously shot production with the female lead as pretty as the primal violence gritty, and, as Viola will unceremoniously remind Chen, "liaise" in "liaison group" implies mutuality. This unseen, yet wholly pervasive and persuasive world in Blackhat presents us with both a real mammalian rodent and a weaponized software RAT, a hybrid of the smooth, practiced strokes of the keyboard and kinetic, visceral violence at the end of a sharpened screw-driving tool or well-aimed gat, our intrepid hacker sports attire from both a GQ catalogue and a suit marked HAZMAT, though curt on conversational chat, Nick, when holding sharpened shanks in place by rubber bands, and torso wrapped in taped magazines, he's set for fstars combat, Sadak brushed Nick and Lien off as though a pesky, innocuous gnat, little did his Blackhatting a** know he's messing with a copycat blackhat and a hellcat, and as Hathaway delivers such primordially satisfying mortal combat, so, too, dowe deliver the remote accessed payload of this SFP, an entertaining, slick/flick-explaining series, a desirable diversion from the main vein of Chemohawk Sessions. For your 32nd episode, we deliciously-- almost deliriously, dissect one of our most prized, techno savvy films, one of our most lauded Mann films, one of our most mutually personalized and memorable flicks in the last 10 years; I have reveled in this film since my first solo viewing. I overlook the flicks piddly and unpardonable pedant found faults; it is these captious critics who set their default setting to critical assault, taking a competently made, expertly shot flick that is worth its salt and shizzing all over it till it whiplash crashes to a halt. I confess to you, Cinematic Fanatics, this Mann directed flick was financially woeful, both locally and worldwide, and its critical consideration only, at times, more hopeful. Enter, with us, you cinematic fanatics, into the realm of film's fantasy as we unwind the grind of reality… We offer you: Pick 32: Slick Flick Pick: Ghostman in the Machine-- Where High-Tech Thrills Greet Low-Tech Kills (Blackhat, 2015). Today, we'll discuss--the gentle and gratuitously loud sounds of the keyboard's keystrokes, the shocking, albeit eerily reveal that the main protagonist wrote this weaponized code at MIT, as a joke, when the unseen, Blackhat douche is finally uncloaked, he proves to be one fat, unsightly, Hawaiian shirt wearing bloke, when not shirtless or in a Hazmat suit, Hathaway's suits are, no doubt, bespoke, though his clearance, passports and credentials America revoked, he remained unprovoked, but when he lost his ole college roomie broski, Chinese kinfolk, his feral and ferocious rage was invoked so he screwdriver stabbed his way through a torch lit, Day of Silence festival until all who wronged him croaked.  - Your worthwhile cinephile: Falsetto Prophet and Redhat Devil  P.S. (Procrastinated Statement) *Intro/outro song, Soulicious, courtesy of the artist, Dyalla. F.C.F.U. *Elizabeth Rodriguez was born to Puerto Rican parents and raised in New York City. (Bada** in Miami Vice film) F.C.F.U. * Misandry is the hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against men F.C.F.U. *The Marine method of teaching the basics of proper shooting starts with the acronym BRASS (B=Breath, R=Relax, A=Aim, S=Stop, S=Squeeze).