Deep Web

2015

Action / Documentary

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 79% · 14 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 71% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.9/10 10 9631 9.6K

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Plot summary

Deep Web gives the inside story of one of the most important and riveting digital crime sagas of the century -- the arrest of Ross William Ulbricht, the 30-year-old entrepreneur convicted of being 'Dread Pirate Roberts,' creator and operator of online black market Silk Road. As the only film with exclusive access to the Ulbricht family, Deep Web explores how the brightest minds and thought leaders behind the Deep Web and Bitcoin are now caught in the crosshairs of the battle for control of a future inextricably linked to technology, with our digital rights hanging in the balance.


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Reviewed by The-Sarkologist 6 / 10

Drugs on the Web

This is another documentary about the internet by Alex Winter, the guy who played Bill in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. Actually, ironically, the documentary is narrated by Keanu Reeves, who was Ted in the affore mentioned movie. However, this documentary has little to do with that particular movie, and everything to do with an anonymous Marketplace known as Silk Road.

Actually, the focus of the film is on the trial of Eric Ulrich, who was convicted of running this particular site. The reason that he landed up in court was because this particular site basically sold drugs (among other things), and could only be accessed through the Deep Web, which is a layer of the internet that you are generally not able to reach via your typical search browser.

What the film explores is the far reaching implications of the trail. For instance, the DEA hacked a server in Iceland to be able to obtain information regarding the site, and they refused to release this evidence. Further, they refused to release any of the witnesses, on the grounds that there had been death threats leveled against them. In fact, one of the things that stood out was how deeply flawed the trial was, yet despite all of this, and the appeals, Eric was still sentenced to life imprisonment - yeah, it really just seemed to be a show trial to send a message that the authorities are not willing to allow the internet to be used to sell drugs.

The documentary looks at three factors though, one of them being internet security, and the fact that the government really doesn't like it because it means they can't spy on you (though they claim that it is to hunt down people who are likely to be a threat to the safety of ordinary people). The second is how the court case effectively said that the Forth Amendment, namely the prohibition against illegal search and seizure, didn't apply to the internet. Of course, it doesn't appear if this matter is settled by a long shot, and it is difficult to know the details of the appeals that Ulrich made without actually reading the judgements.

The final thing comes down to how dealing in drugs is inherently violent, and the film makes the case that this is because of the war on drugs. Obviously, using such words does tend to evoke violence, but the idea behind Silk Road was to remove that aspect of dealing in drugs. For instance, the site uses a rating system like Ebay, which meant that if people didn't supply what they said they would supply, then they would receive bad ratings, and nobody would buy from them. Yet, one could argue that it is the threat of violence that keeps people from going down that road, but this war on drugs has been raging since the 80s, and there just doesn't seem to be any end to it. In fact, it has just made things much, much worse.

Mind you, they do point out that there are a lot of vested interests in keeping the drug war going, and it is not just with the cartels. No, the private prison system, and the drug testing companys, all have a vested interest in this operation. In fact, some argue that it is because of this so called War on Drugs that the United States has the largest prison population in the world.

Reviewed by kosmasp 6 / 10

Silk Road

Not heading to the Wizard of Oz, although I guess you will see a lot of colorful things if you go down that road. Actually it's a site where people sold drugs. But it was more than that. Sticking it to the man, making the public aware of how vulnerable we all are and how our privacy is being squashed everyday.

Unfortunately it is actually more concerned of uncovering the Silk Road thing and the trial that commenced out of it, than diving into the deep (web). So the title may feel a bit misleading, nevertheless an intriguing movie to watch. So if you are not too obsessed about learning what the Deep Web is (it might be too technical anyway), this movie delivers as a documentary. Some questions raised are really important! Let's see where we go from here ...

Reviewed by aqeelalameer 5 / 10

Good but very insufficient

First of all this movie deviates away from its title. There was some layman explanation about the deep web to set the stage for Ulbricht's story but the title should have been different as it misleads the reader.

Secondly I think Winter did a good job with suspense as I felt I was attracted to the course of events and there were some unexpected turns such as the imprisonment for life in the Ulbricht's case.

The big downfall is the one-sided stance that Winter took in this movie painting the government as the ones to blame for the victims of the drug war and that it is Ulbricht's idea that should be used as a substitute for drugs on the street! It does that and also includes a story of a minor who purchased meth from the deep web so the movie kinda contradicts itself! it only sides with Ulbricht's story and is not able to give the full picture! it sounds very like a pro anarchism pro free will movie that assumes all people are good!

I think Winter should consider doing another movie to clarify what led the to life sentence for Ulbricht if he is to be an unbiased ideology-free director.

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