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Pontypool
2009 · Film · 96 min
Directed by Bruce McDonald
When disc jockey Grant Mazzy reports to his basement radio station in the Canadian town of Pontypool, he thinks it's just another day at work. But when he hears reports of a virus that turns people into zombies, Mazzy barricades himself in the radio booth and tries to figure out a way to warn his listeners about the virus and its unlikely mode of transmission.
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You might enjoy the movie Pontypool. I describe it as a zombie movie about linguistics.
This comment hits the nail on the head. Just this morning when I saw FTX and BlockFi's news I thought to myself "yeah all the electricity spent on this is bad, but the real problem is how many hours of human thought have been spent on coming up with these schemes just for them to blow up on our faces".
Crypto is like the mental virus in the movie "Pontypool" [0] - people are infected by it and cannot think about anything else.
[0] - https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/pontypool
That is also the premise of these three great films, inducing disease/mind-control via digital communication:
1. Videodrome
2. They Live
3. Pontypool (which heavily references SnowCrash, the book)
It would not surprise me if this becomes a concern this century (e.g., digital manipulation of the brain remotely).
OK so yours is a bit of a troll, and at some risk of feeding, I'll offer that Pontypool is such a conceptually amazing film, exploring as it does the intersection of language, media, and mortality.
Oh I've seen this movie before https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontypool_(film)
If you're into movies with zombies, pontypool is a fun watch: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontypool_(film)
Not related, but Coding Machines reminded me of the relatively unknown movie Pontypool, which has a similar premise (I won't spoil it).