China’s notorious “human flesh search engines” are now the subject of their own movie. From NBC News:
“Invisible Killer,” produced and co-written by Xie Xiaodong, is the first movie to broach the subject of Internet vigilantism and dramatize the pitfalls of having a mobilized and motivated online mob administering its own brand of justice.
In the film, the main character, Gao Fei, is accused online of seducing a married woman. In response, his online “judges” mete out justice by digging up and posting personal information about him on the Internet. Branding him a “fugitive” online, the cyber assault on Gao’s character turns even nastier when his home is attacked and a manhunt sponsored by a Web site to locate and interview him turns violent.
The events portrayed in “Invisible Killer” may be fiction, but the story line is not far from reality.
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Read also a review of the movie from Variety.
