Cypher story
Cypher (also known as Brainstorm and Company Man), is a 2002 Canadian science fiction spy-fi thriller film starring Jeremy Northam and Lucy Liu. Synopsis: An unemployed accountant turned corporate spy gets more than he bargains for when his new assignment takes an unexpected turn.
12 total · 6 major · 6 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| mind control technology | major | Digicorp used drugs in combination with subliminal messaging to brainwash the hero of the story into believing in his new identity: a mild-mannered accountant from the suburbs. |
| romantic love | major | The story built up to and culminated with Morgan and Rita falling for each other. |
| secret agent occupation | major | The story follows the mild-mannered, unemployed accountant Morgan Sullivan as he becomes a corporate spy under the employ of the nefarious Digicorp corporation. |
| trust in a potential foe | major | The corporate spy Morgan Sullivan struggled at times over whether to trust his possibly rival corporate spy Rita. |
| unethical business practices | major | Central to the plot was Digicorp's use of corporate spies to steal information from their competitors. |
| what if I found out I was a different person than I thought I was | major | The hero of the story Morgan Sullivan came to understand that his identity and memories were false, and that he was actually another man named Sebastian Rooks. |
| boredom | minor | The unemployed accountant Morgan Sullivan became a corporate spy because he was bored with his quiet suburban live. |
| computer hacking | minor | Digicorp tried to "jack in" to the Sunway Systems computer system on multiple occasions according to Virgil. |
| husband and wife | minor | Morgan's wife Amy was pressuring him to take a job at her father's company. |
| resentment | minor | Virgil had a chip on his shoulder on account that his job of figuring out when people were lying had recently been taken over by a machine. |