Cam—My take on the movie with spoilers!
PLOT SUMMARY: When Alice finds herself replaced by a replica of herself on her web show, she sets about to get her identity back. But the impostor isn't going to make things easy for Alice.
The internet just got creepier. With many movies focusing on the risks of being overly exposed on social media, here comes a movie with an even shocking theme, albeit a bit unexplained.
Cam follows the life of Alice, a woman who indulges in salacious activities in front of a webcam to an audience of several men who tip her if she plays out their kinks.
With a raunchy theme such as this, thankfully the movie presents the scenes in a decent manner and the focus is more on Alice and her ambition to be number one on the list.
CAM Movie Plot
Alice is ready to perform any bizarre activity to climb up the ladder and increase her ranking.
The day she finally hits the top fifty is when things begin to go awry. The day after she performs a risky deed, she wakes up to find herself locked out of her account and the website shows her performing live. Alice is shocked to discover that a woman who looks like her is talking to her clients, earning her money and blocks any messages that rat her out as an impostor.
No one helps Alice, not even the police. To top it all, a video of her showing a picture of her brother and the inside of her house, reveals her career to her mother who is shocked.
Alice tries to beat the impostor, fails, then finds out from her stalker that there is something online, like a virus that tracks people online and uses their information to create an entity that looks like them.
In fact, some of the girls online don't even exist unreal life. Shockingly, this thing has no idea what it looks like and when Alice invites her to a private chat, doesn't see the resemblance.
CAM Ending Explained with Spoilers!
Alice takes it off private chat and shows her clients the two Lolas as her online persona is called. After throwing one challenge after another in which Alice breaks her nose to prove the other one is fake, the impostor too quickly integrates a bloody nose on its face. It seems the battle will end with Alice losing, however, at the last moment, she wins a challenge and asks the impostor to send her the password as part of the deal. She does and Alice deletes the account.
Alice goes back to her normal life and creates a new account with a new identity.
The movie was thrilling and intense, but the unexplained plot plays spoilsport. Who was the other Lola? How did Alice get a new identity card? Did she legally change her name? Was the highest tipper somehow involved with the hacking since he was seen with all the girls? Or was it Lola's stalker who was friends with the girls whose accounts were hacked as well?
Did the site have a main office? Why didn't Alice go to the developer's office and show that she couldn't be in two places at once? And I wished they had shown the police try to help her at least. Stolen identity is stolen identity.
Apart from a few questions left to be solved, the movie is an exciting watch and a decent thriller.
Scare scale: 3.5/5
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