What Laura moves toward is that nimbus of the even less-than-Stasi monitors our lives carry now. It's trying to humanize itself, that thing that's watching all the time whatever you do. The movie's an apologia for all the spiritual paraplegics who’ve snitched off their more able cousins for a place at the table and a prosthetic engagement with a common denominator their treachery brings closer and closer to where they are.

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