It’s not as easy to bring a conspiracy to life on screen as it once was. Gone are the days of seedy thrillers and neo-noirs operating on the now-laughable premise that corruption is invisible to the average person’s naked eye.
Closer on the horizon, yet still behind us, are conspiratorial thrillers based around big, dangerous emotions: think the aggressive patriotism of “24” or the paranoid individualism of “Mr.
Robot.” The past few years have seen the world pushed into an era of high conspiracy, in which talk of plots and cover-ups are both more mainstream and more baffling than ever.
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