Mercury Rising (Al rojo vivo)

Título original: Mercury Rising

1998
13
1h 51min

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Bruce Willis in Mercury Rising (Al rojo vivo) (1998)

Unos agentes de seguridad corruptos planean matar a un niño de 9 años autista que es genial descifrando códigos secretos.Unos agentes de seguridad corruptos planean matar a un niño de 9 años autista que es genial descifrando códigos secretos.Unos agentes de seguridad corruptos planean matar a un niño de 9 años autista que es genial descifrando códigos secretos.

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6,1/10

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Premios
- 2 premios en total

Curiosidades
Miko Hughes spent time with many autistic children at a special school to understand how to portray an autistic child. Bennett Leventhal, head of the child psychiatry department at the University of Chicago, spent six weeks before the shoot tutoring Hughes at a school for autistic children. Leventhal complimented Hughes at the movie's premiere, saying, "even I believed you."

Pifias
On the bank's security camera video tape of Art and Dean crossing the street, knee pads are visible beneath Dean's pants in preparation for his fall.

Citas
Nick Kudrow: I asked you not to handle the wine, please!
Art Jeffries: You know, it's good to see you've got your priorities in order.
[takes a slug from another bottle]
Art Jeffries: That's better. You're not worried about murdering a nine year-old boy but you're worried about this fuckin' wine!
[he breaks another bottle and Kudrow winces]

Versiones alternativas
The German TV-Channel RTL cut all of the violence out of the movie, in order to broadcast it on an earlier time spot (8:15 PM).

Conexiones
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: The Newton Boys/Meet the Deedles/The Proposition/A Price Above Rubies/No Looking Back (1998)

Banda sonora
Evil (Is Going On)
Written by Willie Dixon
Performed by KoKo Taylor
Courtesy of Alligator Records

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What is really sad is the grain of truth in this story

Mercury Rising is a very conventional "government bad guys" story about evil agents out to kill an autistic boy who can break their top code. Of course, the premise of the movie, that the government would rather kill someone who can break their code rather than fixing the problems with the code, is incredibly stupid. If one boy can break the code, isn't is reasonable that some other boy in Russia or wherever can also break it? If it has a flaw that allows the kid to find the pattern, doesn't it need to be fixed? Of course, not. We just kill the kid and pretend nothing ever happened.

But, what is really sad is that there is a grain of truth in this story. It is the policy of the US Government that TRYING to break codes is illegal. If you are smart enough to figure out that the DVD encryption has a major flaw, it's not the fault of the designers, it's your fault. Researchers who have discovered flaws in codes, watermarks, etc, have been arrested. This "head in the sand" policy has been around for a long time.

So, next time you see this movie, just think how easy it would be to combine this attitude with someone a bit too gung ho.