ANTITRUST is a very synergy creating movie.

I was moved by the concept program SYNAPSE. A software able to communicate with all devices all the time, a Mobile phone communicating with Email and project yourself from here onwards the world will be more mobile and more empowered than the power giving INTERNET to Third world, First world and second world.

STANDARDS have always been the bane of technology, all the corporates wants to keep selling their products in versions and to select target users and keep their monopoly be it Telephones, Television, Cars or any other new comforting development. The hero says in this film Ryan Phillippe (Milo Hoffman) Human technology belongs to all humans not just a set of few individuals.

The teens of India changed India a country proud of ancient history, the geeks or New Indians changed my country and we see the results, the old men in politics still harp on exploiting the masses and keeping the advantage. This will fall with more STANDARDIZATION of devices only YOUNG can do it. it is happening, if INTERNET liberalized many, WINDOWS made us all computer literate, I remember how rigid were softwares before WINDOWS, dbase shell, lotus, WordStar, I used to spend hours just formatting one single page letter.

Tim Robbins (Gary Winston) is the head tycoon who recruits brilliant top grade students to program his software for SYNAPSE which is about to be launched the world over, they are a top company in software, but their practices are bad, Tim Robbins steals good work from nerdy programmers and murders them by 2 favorite thugs. I like the database of their company, you search anything and anybody's background there you can find all details about them. One scene our hero Milo becomes suspicious of the company's ethics and starts accessing the database to know about people, there he finds out the girl Claire Forlani (Alice Poulson) he is sharing his apartment with, is actually a drug addict with the name of Rebecca, he also finds out the head of Justice Department Lyle Barton (Richard Roundtree) was a ball player, he also finds out that his allergy treatment records and his career records of college are all present in Company database.

After knowing the truth about his murdered friend and his live-in girl friend, Milo talks to fellow programmer Lisa Calighan (Rachael Leigh Cook) to help him nail the company in its criminal activities, Rachael Leigh Cook looked good along with Ryan Phillippe but there is no romantic chemistry between them, they become fellow conspirators, the thing is no matter how big the corporation is, it will not escape breaking the law this is a nice lesson in this film, there are many more lessons and I liked the concept of youngsters understanding easily the sinister plans of their company and have the guts to oppose them and do everything possible not to get subdued or scared. They have the guts to cope with the complex technology and they have the heart to stand against gun carrying security guards and murdering thugs.

Rachael Leigh Cook looked very good and is a good looking girl, her role was not so cool in the end she makes the wrong choice anyway its a film made with a purpose to show the world what possibilities are opening up in the world of computer technology, you can say there is a need for films like this, I mean this field is becoming so important in our world, we need more exposure to films showing in entertaining way the world of computers. We have only seen computers as sinister machines, be it STAR TREK, be it WAR GAMES or you name it. The chief mischief is computer geeks or computers themselves, we must try to show computer related people like Bill Gates in a positive light, not in negative light, I know MICROSOFT has lost a case but their PROGRAMMING has integrated our world more closely than any other gadget or modern invention.

Our gut always worry about new things which we resist and we resent the people who are working in it, I believe this film was made in such a frame of mind, the case Microsoft lost is not worth 2 dimes in the world of PROGRAMMING, you see programmers when they write code they tend to write : focus this window, window me if this code does not help THIRD PARTY software, then nobody is to blame everybody is playing a game of COPYRIGHTS everybody wants to impede and keep the strings of progress in their own hands, our elected representatives do that, what about commercial companies who are answerable to SHARE HOLDERS, who will tolerate non-aggressive executives ? In one breath we condemn ruthlessness and as SHARE HOLDERS we exhort ruthlessness, lets decide what we want first.

I mean guys I don’t think usually on these lines but this film made my mind wander far and wide, I recommend this film not for what it shows, but it incites in you many emotions like this, I got carried, away what with cameras managed by computers shown during the plot of this film. Satellites being closed by their IP addresses. Screen shots being magnified to read code of programmers.

I will give full maximum recommendation to this film. We have not yet reached the stage where technology can track the point of broadcast, but we are working towards it, there is a reporter shouting in the end : VICTORY TO OPEN SOURCE.

Yo!! technology must be encouraged for greater good not impeded .