AMERICAN PERFEKT (director/writer: Paul Chart: cinematographer: William Wages; editor: Michael Ruscio; cast: Fairuza Balk (Alice), Robert Forster (Jake), Amanda Plummer (Sandra), David Thewlis (Santini), Paul Sorvino (Frank), Chris Sarandon (Sammy), Joanna Gleason (Shirley), 1997)
Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz
Perfekt is a psychological thriller about a psychopath, Jake Nyman (Forster), who decides someone's fate by the toss of his silver coin. The movie's locale is in the desert outside of Los Angeles county, where the 30-ish Sandra Thomas (Amanda Plummer-she's the wife of the director) is going to meet her 25-year-old hitchhiking, unbalanced, hippie sister, Alice (Balk), in a place called Pear Blossom and then the two will visit their mother in Utah. But the ex-secretary for a collection agency, having just been fired, is having a bad hair day, which only gets worst on the road. Sandra is driven off the road by a driver's road rage. The driver is a British con man named Santini (Thewlis), who it turns out was just trying to signal her about something he found and was not really a madman. When her car is stalled, she mistakeningly leaves her door open, as a speeding car crashes into her door and unhinges it. But that crash driver turns out to be a perfect gentleman, a criminal psychologist from Los Angeles, who happens to be single and handsome. He gives her a lift to the next roadside motel where she calls to get her car towed. She thinks she has struck it lucky and has finally met the man of her dreams. But she is only alive for the moment because he tossed a coin and she won the right to live, for awhile. You see, this Mr. Perfect turns out to be a madman.
These four (Forster, Plummer, Thewlis, and Balk) will play out life's game of chance, with Forster calling the coin tosses and therefore holding their lives in his hands. He exhibits signs of being a control freak, someone who might even be a nut case, by taking everything so literal and acting in a robotic and deliberate fashion when he speaks, so that everything he does seems out of place.
Paul Sorvino, as a local sheriff, brings renewed energy to the film, as he plays his role straight (thank the director for at least giving us one such real character in the film) as a small-town law officer who is more than willing to do his job. In fact, the acting in the film by everyone is really fine, especially considering how thin the script was. It is the story itself and the way it is directed that leads to the detriment of the film, allowing it to have the look of one of those films made only to be seen as a rental video, which indeed is how this film was released.
The film tries to play like noir, but only ends up being the kind of fake noir that is more irritating than complimentary. It tries to be purposefully evasive about its storyline and to have its tenuous story be based on chance as being the sole determinant of life. What it eventually becomes is a predictable psycho flick and not an unpredictable noir film, as it wanted to be.  It tries so hard to give itself a weird angle through its characterizations, which only work on a superficial level-from the neurotic damsel-in-peril, Plummer- to the split personality performance of Forster, whose actions waiver between maniacally calm reasoning to histrionic schmaltz, as he goes off the deep end reciting rhymes.
The main problem, which the film is never able to overcome, is that the storyline is not that compelling and that the characters are not necessarily interesting even if they are quirky.The story never had a real strength to it; it always seemed like the actors were play-acting, that the script was struggling to device another gimmick to go with the coin toss motif, instead of letting the story seem to come about out of its own accord. What the director came up with as the other gimmick, was a two-headed coin to toss. This did not help explore anything going on inside the characters, only trivializing the story further, making it rely solely on a gimmick to tell its story.
What we are left with is a series of encounters among characters who are not that appealing in the first place, and also by the end of the film, we know only a little more about the psychopath than we did from the opening scene. I therefore wasn't sure what the director wanted to accomplish, except he probably thought by showing how idiosyncratic all the characters could be, that would be enough to get it over. If that was what he was thinking, he misjudged the quality of the film, but not before he showed flashes of talent here and there, for example, in the opening scene in the desert --- Forster's calm demeanor was played-off beautifully against Plummer's nervous energy, and with the desert lurking as a hostile backdrop to the action, it added a thrilling surreal sense of dramatics to the story. But the film fell too quickly into the serial-killer mode, and lost the edge it never had but always wanted.
REVIEWED ON 4/18/2000 GRADE: C-
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@Path("/_matrix/key/v2") @Consumes("application/json") @Produces("application/json") public interface KeyApi
Each homeserver publishes its public keys under /_matrix/key/v2/server/. Homeservers query for keys by either getting /_matrix/key/v2/server/ directly or by querying an intermediate notary server using a /_matrix/key/v2/query API. Intermediate notary servers query the /_matrix/key/v2/server/ API on behalf of another server and sign the response with their own key. A server may query multiple notary servers to ensure that they all report the same public keys.
This approach is borrowed from the Perspectives Project, but modified to include the NACL keys and to use JSON instead of XML. It has the advantage of avoiding a single trust-root since each server is free to pick which notary servers they trust and can corroborate the keys returned by a given notary server by querying other servers.
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bulkQuery(QueryRequest request, javax.ws.rs.core.UriInfo uriInfo, javax.ws.rs.core.HttpHeaders httpHeaders, javax.ws.rs.container.AsyncResponse asyncResponse)
Query for keys from multiple servers in a batch format.void
key(String keyId, javax.ws.rs.core.UriInfo uriInfo, javax.ws.rs.core.HttpHeaders httpHeaders, javax.ws.rs.container.AsyncResponse asyncResponse)
Gets the homeserver's published TLS fingerprints and signing keys.void
query(String serverName, String keyId, Long minimumValidUntilTs, javax.ws.rs.core.UriInfo uriInfo, javax.ws.rs.core.HttpHeaders httpHeaders, javax.ws.rs.container.AsyncResponse asyncResponse)
Query for another server's keys.
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@GET @Path("/server/{keyId}") void key(@PathParam("keyId") String keyId, @Context javax.ws.rs.core.UriInfo uriInfo, @Context javax.ws.rs.core.HttpHeaders httpHeaders, @Suspended javax.ws.rs.container.AsyncResponse asyncResponse)
Gets the homeserver's published TLS fingerprints and signing keys. The homeserver may have any number of active keys and may have a number of old keys. Intermediate notary servers should cache a response for half of its lifetime to avoid serving a stale response. Originating servers should avoid returning responses that expire in less than an hour to avoid repeated requests for a certificate that is about to expire. Requesting servers should limit how frequently they query for certificates to avoid flooding a server with requests. If the server fails to respond to this request, intermediate notary servers should continue to return the last response they received from the server so that the signatures of old events can still be checked.
Return:KeyResponse
Status code 200: The homeserver's keys
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keyId
- Deprecated. Servers should not use this parameter and instead opt to return all keys, not just the requested one. The key ID to look up.uriInfo
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@GET @Path("/query/{serverName}/{keyId}") void query(@PathParam("serverName") String serverName, @PathParam("keyId") String keyId, @QueryParam("minimumValidUntilTs") Long minimumValidUntilTs, @Context javax.ws.rs.core.UriInfo uriInfo, @Context javax.ws.rs.core.HttpHeaders httpHeaders, @Suspended javax.ws.rs.container.AsyncResponse asyncResponse)
Query for another server's keys. The receiving (notary) server must sign the keys returned by the queried server.
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.Status code 200: The keys for the server, or an empty array if the server could not be reached and no cached keys were available.
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serverName
- Required. The server's DNS name to query.keyId
- Deprecated. Servers should not use this parameter and instead opt to return all keys, not just the requested one. The key ID to look up.minimumValidUntilTs
- A millisecond POSIX timestamp in milliseconds indicating when the returned certificates will need to be valid until to be useful to the requesting server. If not supplied, the current time as determined by the notary server is used.uriInfo
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@POST @Path("/query") void bulkQuery(QueryRequest request, @Context javax.ws.rs.core.UriInfo uriInfo, @Context javax.ws.rs.core.HttpHeaders httpHeaders, @Suspended javax.ws.rs.container.AsyncResponse asyncResponse)
Query for keys from multiple servers in a batch format. The receiving (notary) server must sign the keys returned by the queried servers.
Return:QueryResponse
.Status code 200: The keys for the queried servers, signed by the notary server. Servers which are offline and have no cached keys will not be included in the result. This may result in an empty array.
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Sarah founded IF where she currently works as CEO. IF works with organisations shaping our digital world to show how they can be trusted with data.
The Alternet is a proposal for a telecommunications network, a public utility for the Internet age - created, controlled and owned by everyone. The Alternet gives people control of data through straightforward data licences.
There are three main components in the Alternet superfiction:
1 Hardware
The Alternet is a long distance mesh network so the Alternet grows organically with each new router that is added. The router cases are made in any colour filament on a standard desktop 3D printer.
The cases are designed to prevent malicious nodes from being added to the network. Each router is printed with a fingerprint that is unique and verifiable against a public database of router IDs, so any compromised router is automatically removed from the network until the community are able to assess it. In addition, the routers are made with special catches that mean to adapt the router requires the printed box to be physically broken, acting as a visual warning that the router has been compromised. These security solutions are designed to make it ‘just hard enough’ to deter people from maliciously adapting the network.
2 Data Licences
Individuals can choose to share their data openly in data commons, or under certain terms through data licences. There are numerous local and international derivative markets that form as a result of quality data shared with consent.
3 Data Barometer
Similar to a traditional weather barometer, the data barometer makes an invisible material visible and actionable. Each time an individual opens their Alternet operating system they see their barometer.
The barometer is colour agnostic, it changes colour depending on the last service to request the individual’s data. Sarah built a prototype of the barometer.
The Alternet was Sarah’s MA Industrial Design major project completed in May 2014, it was widely documented in the technology press. Sarah wrote the brief for the Alternet at the Maker Faire in New York in August 2013 where she helped to build a WikiHouse with SketchUp. Many of the Sketchup employees were wearing Pebble smart watches and the Snowden revelations had just come out. There were many conversations about data and privacy shared over various dinners. A combination of all these things gave Sarah the inspiration to make her project explore privacy and the Internet.
For more on the Alternet:
- Academic dissertation, Alternet Rules
- Short presentation deck
- Chronice and forecast drawing
- Alternet network
- Alternet Cooperative, Hello World
- Hardware specification
A physical cache and short film processing and distilling research undertaken at the beginning of the Alternet project. The Cache was updated until May 2014 and so should be viewed as an artefact of its time.


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