Decoder (1984)

Decoder (1984) - Muscha A burger shop employee discovers that by changing the background music from pleasantly calming to industrial "noise" music, he can incite riots and a revolution against the looming power of the government. Cyberpunk films. Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a dystopian futuristic setting that tends to focus on a "combination of lowlife and high tech", featuring futuristic technological and scientific achievements, such as artificial intelligence and cybernetics, juxtaposed with societal collapse or decay. William S. Burroughs ‘Word falling— Photo falling—Breakthrough in Greyroom—He has gone away through invisible mornings, leaving a million tape recordings of his voice behind, fading into the cold spring air, pose a colourless question . . . ’ ‘Junk turns you on vegetable—It’s green, see? — A green fix should last a long time—An unworthy vessel obviously—So, I have decided that junk is not green, but blue’. Weird Sisters in Shakespeare’s Macbeth: Eye of newt/and toe of frog/Wool of bat, and tongue of dog/Adder’s fork and blind worm’s sting/Lizard’s leg and howlet’s wing/For a charm of powerful trouble/Like a hell-broth boil and bubble./Liver of blaspheming jew/Gall of goat, and slips of yew/Silver’d in the moon’s eclipse/Nose of turk, and Tartar’s lips/Finger of birth-strangled babe/Ditch-delivered by a drab/Make the gruel thick and slab.