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Mr. Robot Review

Mr. Robot is an american television series based on drama-thriller genre however the thing making it most different and unique is its story and most important Cinematography. I have studied Cinematography as a subject enough to know that what Mr. Robot does totally breaks basic rules of cinematography, yet so appealing that it works flawlessly.
And to those who think this is some story about a robot who is called Mr. robot please stop reading and get yourself checked up.
Mr. Robot's first episode or Pilot as it is called is the only episode or the content that i have ever watched more than 2 times. Elliot who is the protagonist of the story is cyber security engineer who has completely different view of the world that we live in and brings out the harsh reality from his perspective which usually goes unnoticed.Story follows this young programmer who views world in disgust and usually hates this society as he is tired of everyone being hypocrite and fake. He also is a vigilante hacker who exposes wrong people which is great irony. Though this is what is revealed in pilot only to realize later that there is much bigger  story and  which will change anyone's perspective. It turns into great psychological thriller as wrong side of Elliot is revealed only to make you question if you should root for this character who faces conflicts within himself and tries to save the world by doing unethical works.

 Moral ambiguity is one of the factor that is very realistic and makes us viewer only involved in the world. From Elliot's point of view, we are his imaginary friend to whom he talks to, not as in breaking the fourth wall but his thoughts and only his thoughts and we are set on a journey where Elliot has a dream of better world which he tries to accomplish when a weird man follows him and offers to join his group of hackers to change the world for better.

Let's talk about cinematography, Quadrant framing is something very unusual which results in jarring effect making it unwatchable but in this show this framing suits perfectly as a character's head is shown on right bottom or left bottom exposing rest of the screen completely empty which displays isolation the character and gives a clean look to the character which is what story is driven by.
On further viewing the story unveiled is mind baffling and clearly stands out of all tv shows ever.
I highly recommend this show to anyone but in the end this is not the show for everyone. 

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