2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
An online hustler faces his sins in the e-commerce thriller ‘Cloud'
A sneaky tale of savagery in the dehumanizing digital age, writer-director Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 'Cloud' is as bleak a warning as you'll find in theaters this year, cautioning against the corrosive combination of late capitalism, the internet and human nature. Its protagonist, an unscrupulous e-tailer paying a violent price for his own ruthlessness, is so unapologetic that one could debate whether he's the villain or the victim, but genre maven Kurosawa knows that a redemption arc would be far too trite for a scammer like this.
