American Thief (2020) - full transcript

Man in the van here coming
at you live from the van.

Just look at that.

Look at this beauty.

You know the other
day I was talking

to someone about how I
got blisters on my feet

from all the walking I do.

The very same day, I start
getting ads for these insoles.

Homeopathic remedies
for my blisters.

Is this, does that
sound familiar to you?

That ever happen to you?

Listen, folks.



Hi.

You like the changes?

Listen.

What we buy, what we
do, when we do it,

who we do it with,
why we do what we do.

All of that information
is being saved

and stored in a
building like that.

Huh?

But if you think, if
you think for one minute

that the technology that
their using is being used

to sell us, uh,

bicycle tires, and funky hats,
basketballs, bike helmets,

because of the jackets we
wear, listen, you're wrong.

The marketing algorithms
are just the beginning.



The tip of the iceberg of
what the bigger plan is.

You have any idea what it is?

I do.

Brace yourself because
what we're headed for-

Coming in on the
hour, the polls are about

to close in a
number of key states

and we'll be able to make
some early projections here

in just a bit.

Now in the last two
presidential elections,

news outlets were able
to call the election

as early as 11 p.m.,
but it's not shaping up-

Today is
November 8th, 2016.

My name is Paul Hunter.

I'm not quite sure
what's happening or why.

But I do know one thing and
I'll share that with you.

And that's the truth.

My truth.

You do with that
what you see fit.

That is
why I am running

for president of
the United States.

We begin a political
revolution to transform

our country economically,
politically, socially,

and environmentally.

I am
officially running

for president of
the United States,

and we are going to make
our country great again.

Don't shoot me.

Almost there.

Almost there.

Bro, you're
never gonna get it.

Check this out.

Get your fucking rebate.

Oh, man!

That was, that was sick.

You a crazy motherfucker, Ton.

I won the bet.

Give me the logins.

Sending to your phone.

Only for you though.

Don't share.

Come on, Meeks!

Peace.

What do you need
the codes for anyway?

Don't worry about it.

I gotta go.

- I'll see ya later.
- Wait, come on!

I'm, I'm scared
because there are a lot

of very time
sensitive issues, um,

globally speaking, and
I just think, like,

sometimes, you know, you
can take one step forward

and two steps back
and that happens,

but, like, not when
you're near cliffs.

We've seen riots

and we've seen violence
continuously following this campaign

and, really, I mean, if
there's enough of that, then,

I mean, you don't need
that much more to be able

to declare marshal law

and it's really scary
to think that something

like that could happen.

What are we gonna do about it?

I mean no one, no
one really cares.

No one really listens.

That's the problem.

That is the problem

And it's, like, figuring
out how to get them to listen.

We gotta shock them.

We have to, like,
wake people up.

Like-

- How the fuck do
you do that though?

With something provocative.

Radical.

Like crazy.

Like, the things
that they've looked up

and like they've done?

Oh, man.

That's the worst.

I remember the first time

I hacked into
somebody's phone it

was actually my boss's phone.

- Yeah?
- Yeah.

He was my manager actually.

And I saw his dick pic.

Oh, my god.

It was the first
dick pic I've seen

of someone else's
dick besides my dick.

It was crazy.

It was crazy.

I wasn't ready.

What's the craziest part is
the fact that the government

has all these pictures.

- Yeah.
- That's what blows my mind.

And people don't even know.

Like, they act
like they don't care.

But, like, once we bring up,
like, certain points about it-

- Right.

Like we could tell them oh,
oh, uh, the government looks

into all your messages.

And they're like, "So?"

But if you tell they have your
dick pic, they're like, "Oh!

Not my dick."

Yeah, right?

Oooh, shit.

I think, I think
that could be it.

You think that would work?

I think so.

I think, I think people
would definitely listen.

Yeah, yeah.

If we show every, imagine, like,

we stop and we send
everybody's dick pics

back to their phone.

Bro, they would
go fucking wild.

Yo, right?

I mean, the government
is already tapped

into all of our
information anyway.

We just gotta hack into
their servers and just-

Imagine your co-worker
comes up to you

and shows you a
picture of your dick.

It's, yo-

- I'm telling you.

This is, that's exactly
how we have to do it.

Nah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I think so, bro.

I think so.

People would listen.

- You in?
- Almost.

I'm going to crack it
right before your eyes.

Watch this.

Everything sent off their
phones can come right back.

Same principle.

Same shit.

Don't move.

Put your hands in the air.

- Put your hands in the air.
- I'm with my son.

Don't move.

Put your hands in the air.

Hands in the air.

Don't move until I tell you.

My hands are in the air.

Don't move.

You understand
what justice is.

And after I'm locked up and
after everybody's locked up,

that you can jail
revolutionaries

but you can't jail a revolution.

Right.

I heard a sister scream.

They stopped shooting.

Pig said, "He's
good and dead now."

Pigs running around laughin'.

They where really
happy, ya know.

Talkin' about,
"Chairman Fred is dead."

I never saw Chairman Fred again.

Like we always said,

if you're asked to
make a commitment

at the age of 20, and you say,

"I don't want to
make a commitment,

only because of
the simple reason

that I'm too young to die.

I want to live a
little bit longer."

What you did is,
you're dead already.

You have to
understand that people

have to pay the price for peace.

They are not just
gangs of kids anymore

They are often the kinds of kids

that are called super predators,

no conscience, no empathy.

We can talk about why
they ended up that way,

but first we have to
bring them to heel

and the president
has asked the FBI

to launch a very concerted
effort against gangs everywhere.

These days the hackers

are the only ones equipped
to tell the truth.

They're the only ones equipped
to bring about justice.

If the average person knew how
much we were being spied on,

we'd have a revolution
on our hands.

They problem is they're using

sophisticated
phishing techniques

to recruit and target
young cyber activists,

without their knowledge

into joining fake causes,
into committing crimes.

And the real consequences

of this is that
young cyber activists

are actually put in real danger.

They're being
arrested for crimes

they didn't even know
they were committing.

This is how they flip
the script on us.

And we have to be
extremely vigilant.

We have to be aware.

We cannot let this be the
legacy of our movement.

- Diop.
- Yes, Grandma?

- What you doing back there?
- Working, Grandma.

- You're working on what?
- Talking to some friends.

Reading some articles.

Again on the idiot
box back there?

It's not an idiot box.

Oh, it is absolutely,
unequivocally, irrevocably,

an idiot box.

I wanna see you
dig inside yourself

and use your genius
to make a difference.

You have to build a legacy, son.

Holy the shit.

A government that is
entirely well meaning,

without its knowledge

could just be ushering
in a virus like this

to all its citizens.

And it could just
destroy the lives

of every individual
in an entire country.

If someone has access
to a virus like this,

they have control of
launching nuclear weapons.

Nations states aren't
going to be afraid

of who has nuclear
weapons anymore.

They're going to be afraid
of who has a virus like this.

The U.S. and Israel
developed Stuxnet

and they used it against Iran

causing substantial damage
to their nuclear facilities.

A lot of people think this
is a sophisticated process

like a Hollywood spy film.

In reality, all it takes
for the Stuxnet virus

to attack is one
person to plug in

an infected drive
into a computer.

You can influence a
major country's election.

This technology is
incredibly insidious

and incredibly dangerous
if it's in the wrong hands.

Are you sure you're not
being tracked already?

I wouldn't be surprised.

You tapped into some
pretty deep shit.

Nah, man.

I don't think so.

I say we start tapping
people one by one.

What good would that do?

We have to focus on the big
picture and tap everyone.

Who do you have in mind, huh?

Look, if the average
person understood

that they were being spied on,

then maybe we have a
shot at this for real.

Protests.

Demonstrations like these.

It's all accounted for.

This is us just playing
into the system's game.

No justice!

No peace!

No justice!

No peace!

No racist!

Police!

No racist!

Police!

No justice!

No peace!

Give a holler.

What does it take to get
the system to understand,

we're tired and we
won't take it no more.

I got
something to say,

but actually I want
to give my time

to the families
that want to talk.

I want to give my
time to the families.

However, I just do also want
to say what am I doing here.

I'm doing here because I am a
human being with a conscience.

And when I see murder,
I cannot stand by

and I have to call the
murdered the murdered

and I have to call the
murderers the murderers.

Now I want to give my
time to the family.

Thank you very much.

And this is who I am.

I stand right here.

This is me.

And I jump and fight and I'm
going to continue to fight.

Power to the people!

Power to the people!

What do we want?

Justice!

- When do we want it?
- Now!

Indict.

Convict.

Send those killer cops to jail.

The whole damn system
is guilty as hell.

Indict.

Convict.

Send those killer cops to jail.

The whole damn system
is guilty as hell.

Don't stand on the sidelines.

Join us.

To maim the lives
of children is to deny God.

To militarize police to murder
with impunity unarmed people,

our modern form of
crucifixion, is to deny God.

Shut it down!

What do we want?

Justice!

When do we want it?

Now!

What do we want?

Justice!

When do we want it?

Now!

If we don't get it?

Shut it down!

If we don't get it?

Shut it down!

Shut it down!

The weapons of the past

were the constitution
and the rifle.

Today it's our cell
phone and the internet.

But it can't be about revenge.

It has to be about justice.

Don't you think those people

that we saw today
deserve their revenge?

They deserve
their justice, man.

Not revenge.

We live in a society
where anybody can be

a terrorist except white people.

Yeah I said it 'cause
it need to be said.

The reason why it can't
be, get better 'cause

they'll never admit that
the country was formed

on genocide, murder, thievery.

When you start off
wearing two left shoes,

sooner or later your
feet got to hurt.

When you build a
house on quicksand,

sooner or later
it's got to sink.

The foundation was wrong.

I had a white friend named Jim.

I said, "Jim, you white.

You a republican.

Why would you vote
for the republicans?

They not gonna give you shit."

He said, "I don't care if
they don't give me shit

as long as they don't
give you nothing."

That's the mentality
of this country.

I'm trying to figure out

why I should care
what any of y'all

in this room think about me.

None of y'all were there

when my father used to
pounce on my mother.

When he used to beat up on me.

When I used to have
to lock the doors

and lock my mother
out of the room

while she get pounced on on
the other side of the room.

When the first time
he showed me a gun.

When the first time
I seen him shoot up.

When my homeboy got
killed at 12-years old

that I played baseball with.

When my homeboy got
chopped up in DC

after I told him
not to sell in DC.

I done shot many people.

I done hurt many people.

See that's the problem.

Nobody's been through
what I've been through.

Why you tryin' to save me?

Do y'all even realize
who y'all tryin' to save?

Like, not just talkin' about me.

Like, do y'all even realize
that some of these lives

that y'all attempting to
save should not be saved?

Y'all understand that, right?

I think we're only,

it's only really going to stop

once we realize that
all of our backs

are against the same wall.

It's, me savin', it's not about
savin' you it's savin' us.

It's,

what we've been doing,

I know I might be young

and naive or whatever and
there's things I don't understand

because I've never
lived that life, but

you are my brother.

And that's something
that is fact.

You and I, we walkin'
down the street...

We're looked at exactly
the same no matter

what we've been through in life.

That was the intent.

To make you believe
that you are a monster.

For that matter, to make
the rest of us believe

that you're a monster.

And some of us bought into that

but all of us did
not buy into it.

I'm not one.

She's not one.

She's not one.

I didn't raise
him to be that one

and I refuse to believe
that this young man is that

and this young man is
going to accept that...

They're not going to say,
"Oh, he's not in a gang."

No.

"You look alike."

You got a common uniform on.

So I can't afford
to let you fail.

We can't afford to let you fail.

And we save who we can save

and who we can't
we say a prayer.

The dead is the dead.

Life is for the living.

And as long as we breathe,

we have an opportunity.

We have a chance.

We can do something.

We can change this world

and ain't nothing you can say.

Ain't nothing you can say

that will make me
believe otherwise

because what that means
is that there is no hope.

There is no hope.

And maybe you want to
throw up your hands

and you wanna say,

"Hey, there is never going
to be any difference."

There is never going
to be any hope."

But you can't make
me believe that.

That's not who I am.

I don't believe that she is.

That's the way, no,
we're not buying it.

She's not buying it.

We're not buying it.

And sooner or later, just
like we have to chip away

at the people who
take your lives

and take all of the
lives that matter to us,

we have to stay on your case.

You let us in.

You came here.

That tells me something.

We thank you.

That's right.

We thank you.

We thank you for being here.

Because what you're
doing right now,

you're showing, you're
showing my baby.

You're showing my baby
a whole other side

of what's out there.

Man, this world, it
ain't carve no easy road.

Especially for black men.

And black women.

Never has.

And we ain't playin'.

Yeah, we got the
mask like Halloween.

Watcha doin', niggas?

Niggas wanna front?

38'll leave 'em special when
this nigga gettin' touched

And I'm wavy over here and
we ain't lookin' at a bust

but you can catch shots, nigga,
we ain't lookin at a cup.

Whatcha doin' nigga, I'm hot.

And like a story where
you getting money

you know niggas will plot.

I gotta be seen nigga
when I sit in the drop.

I put the rolly on fire,
just look at the watch.

And your girl like a bus,
just look at her stop.

And when I roll outside
you gotta look at 'em cop.

How you doin' what I'm doin'

when I'm moving with the bricks.

Now niggas is talkin' money.

I ain't lookin' like a limp.

Instagram got the money,
got 'em lookin' at the pic.

And the big 500 got
them lookin' at whip.

I got the war right now.

I got them lookin' at the sniff.

And my connections hit me
with a whole new brick.

Mom?

- Yo?
- Diop.

It's me.

Get all your shit and leave!

Wait, wait, wait, slow down.

- Slow-
- Meet me at the field now!

What do you mean?

It's a mess out there!

It's gonna take forever.

Just get there
and I'll tell you!

What did you do?

Just do it!

Oh, fuck

Shit.

Is there something wrong?

"Toncruz"?

What kind of name is that?

Do you have any drugs?

Can I go now?

Pick up.

Come on.

We're sorry.

Your call cannot be completed-

My name is Doug Carantha.

I think the world
is going to improve.

I think that people
came together to vote

for those that are righteous

and that came together tonight.

I'd like to thank everybody

who supported the Republican
party and the Democratic party.

I think basically
that Donald Trump

is going to win this election

and I think that the world is
going to come together more.

I think the resources will be
right aligned with everyone

who needs them.

I think that, I think that
everything is going to go perfect

and for the next four years.

Everything is going to be
up and up on the economy.

The economy is in the best
situation it's ever been.

And I think that the
people came together

and I think the
election is fair.

I think that Russia, Germany,

and the whole world is
together with us now.

I've been priced out and
pushed out every decent place

I've lived in this
city, but I love it.

I was born here, I'll be
damned if I don't die here too.

I love this piece of shit.

My work is here,
my mission is here

but fuck paying rent.

If you pay rent these days
you're a fool to give them money!

People are all confused asking
themselves the great question

of our time

What is going on?

What the fuck is going on?

I had a few ideas about that.

They are destroying the Earth

faster than they developed
a way to escape it,

and they are trying.

You'd better fucking
believe they are trying.

Space colonies on the Moon,
Mars and fucking Pluto.

Yeah, I don't care
about none of that shit.

It's all connected, folks.

All of it.

We're at war, it's
just a different

kind of war being fought.

Every single day they're
out there re-rigging

our fucking brains

but we can't even notice it

because we're too
busy taking selfies.

People don't give a shit about
the World Cup in this country

I don't give a shit about
the World Cup either,

but check this out.

World Cup 2010, South Africa.

2014, Brazil.

2018, Russia.

2022, Qatar.

Look at this and tell me that
there hasn't been a shift

in the power structures
of the world!

What do you think the man,
Uncle Sam is gonna do?

He is gonna make it all go
back to normal, sugar baby.

How it was before.

Baby girl, Gaddafi was
the first one to go.

Who is protecting them, huh?

Who is protecting this
lovely little couple

walking down the street?

Who is protecting me?

It's man in the van
saying hello to you,

trying to wake you up.

Hello!

We are already in the
state of martial law

whether or not you
want to admit it.

The police here are in place,

they are the ring leaders
keeping us all in place.

I am not talking about
the police individuals.

I'm talking about the system.

Do you want to know
what I believe?

I believe that the only
people who are going

to bring justice to
us are the hackers.

So you got nothing
to say to me?

I'm thinkin' you do.

Peace is not the
absence of conflict, Pops.

Times have changed.

There is no peace without
justice and justice can't be had

when a million innocent
people are going away

and the crooks are
getting away with it.

It just doesn't work that way.

Look me in the eye
and tell me I'm wrong.

You tell me I'm wrong.

What's this?

Dad, where'd you get this?

Don't ask, man.

Who gave this to you?

Don't worry about it.

It's absolutely
worth taking the risk.

Most hackers know that or they
wouldn't involve themselves.

It's a different kind
of war being fought.

And hackers are on the
front lines of a battle

most ordinary citizens
aren't even aware of

even though everyone
is affected by it.

So, being arrested is
one of the lesser worries

for these hackers.

Especially when so
many are disappearing.

I need
you to decode this.

I don't think I
can open this, man.

I don't even, I don't
even know what this is.

There you go, there you go.

Man, where did you
fucking get this?

I don't think you
have any fucking idea

what you're messing with.

You gotta start
studying the greats.

The ones who have done it
before us... You look at them.

And you can just
learn from them.

You know what I mean?

Like, I'm talking the Fred
Hamptons, the Hueys, the Bobbies...

We gotta lay down the blueprint

so everyone after us can
pick up where we leave off.

Because, it's gonna take
more than just, just us.

You feel me?

America.

Built on man-made laws.

Whose soldiers fight
for the interests

of legislatures, liars,
fornicators, corporations...

And you claim to have the
greatest army history has known.

You may have the
numbers and weapons

but your soldiers lack
the will and resolve.

Still scared by their defeat
in Afghanistan and Iraq

they return dead or suicidal

with over 6500 of them
killing themselves each year.

Then, there's your new
coalition of devils

with Iran, Turkey and
Russia joining the fray.

And no difference between
and Arab and a non non Arab

or a black man and a white
man except through piety.

I won the bet,
give me the logins.

Videos like the one
you just saw are just a part

of the recruitment tactic.

So far this year,
officials estimate

roughly 300 Americans
have tried to join ISIS.

At least 15 Americans
have physically left

to join ISIS overseas.

And these recruits fit
no particular pattern.

Some are poor, some privileged

from small towns
or large cities.

They can infiltrate any home.

All you need is a
kid with a computer.

Welcome.

Are you hungry?

I have something for you.

At the bottom of everything
lies the biggest evil of all.

And I guarantee you it isn't us.

We are just a reaction
to what was given to us.

Where are they?

There is a lot you don't know.

So take a rest.

We'll talk later.

Meet
me at the southwest corner.

It's like they say.

If the mountain doesn't
come to Mohammed

then Mohammed better
start trekking.

So I'm not gonna wait
around another second.

I have intel and I
have to give this

information to someone
who can actually

do something about it.

And not the police or the feds.

I don't trust the Feds.

They play the same game too.

And the game with
get tricky, folks.

So get ready.

Everyone will be played
against each other.

We already are.

We're stepping into a
quagmire of clusterfucks.

It's gonna take a lot to
get us out of this shit.

From this point on things
wont make much sense.

You'll think you'll
understand but you won't.

What happened
to your father?

It all happened so quick.

I looked over and

he was lying on the floor.

And I yelled to him.

I yelled for him and

He didn't answer.

He didn't respond.

And it was all my fault.

Because he jumped in
front of me to save me.

But I found the guy who did it.

I found-

- We have to cross paths

with the man who
killed your father.

We've been ordered
to proceed as planned.

All right.

Let's get the ball rolling.

What's really
important about Wikileaks

is that the Russian government

has engaged in espionage
against Americans.

They have hacked
American Websites,

american accounts
of private people

of institutions.

Campaign battle.

The fight for the presidency.

The race to the White House.

It all boils down.

Election 2016.

Stay tuned for the most
up to date results.

Hi Paul Hunter.

Josephine is in your area.

She is at Hotel de la Gloria,

room 602.

She will be at Democracy
Plaza at 11 p.m.

You want to know
how it all connects.

I work for you.

You entered the code

that granted you access
to the interface.

~I am an advanced
intelligence program

designed to anticipate,

manipulate, and
facilitate as needed.

I'm not sure that matters.

I want you to think

about the man who
killed your father.

- Done.
- What now?

Now we go
out separate ways.

Well, it was
great working with you.

Goodnight.

Goodbye.

President Obama
winning the state

by the thinnest of margins

in the last two
presidential elections.

By 2.8% in 2008 and
only 0.88% in 2012.

In a contentious race every
vote makes a difference

and the electoral college
bearing so much weight...

The most important
thing for me is when

the director of
FBI, Director Comey,

addressed congress after
his long investigation-

There you go, man.

And told us that the
intelligence community

contacted them.

For American citizens to hear

that the intelligence community

contacted the FBI

concerning Hillary
Clinton is enough

to make an American shudder.

I was with Bernie Sanders
before I was with Trump.

I actually saw some
things in Nevada.

I actually saw some
things in Montana.

And yes, the elections
can be rigged very easily.

The building
code is 48104.

You have enough time to walk
in, mirror the computer,

and kill him.

Get in.

Are you unidentified?

Unidentified is not a person.

It's a program.

What is this?

BigFoot.

BigFoot?

Artificial intelligence.

It learns everything about us

from our collective
online activities.

It was designed as a weapon.

Now it runs on its own.

It's like a marketing algorithm.

How do
you know all this?

I was one of the programmers.

Did you kill Rick Boer?

We have word
that Hillary Clinton

has telephoned Donald
Trump to concede the race.

It is official.

Donald Trump will be the
45th of the United States.

We will live with
president elect Trump

as he makes his
acceptance speech

from his campaign's
party headquarters.

We can disengage.

We can absolutely do that.

We can be demoralized.

We can, um, we can think
that change is never possible

and even if that's true

I think we have
to love the issues

that we fought for in the past

enough to be able to fight
for them even if we never win.

And we have to try.

We absolutely have to try.

Uh, and so,

people just need to,

first I think like, love people
who don't agree with what,

with what they
believe and understand

that there are a lot
of pure intentions

that are being manipulated

by people who are very well
trained in manipulation.

And then I think we
need to get out there.

I think we need to not
just fill in little bubbles

and think that that's all
it means to be political.

We need to realize
we're being political

and we're voting in a small way

every time we buy something,

every time we, uh,

you know, hear things on
the news and only complain.

I think we need to grab signs.

We need to make signs.

We need to get out
there and protest.

We need to write
to our senators.

We need to call the White House

until they leave the
phone off the hook

and then we call
tomorrow, you know?

We need to try.

And I think

if we don't try
then, then, then, um,

then we have no
right to be upset.

I'm not quite sure
what's happening or why.

But I do know one thing

and I'll share that with you.

And that's the truth.

My truth.

You do with that
what you see fit.

Truth is,

I always thought that I
knew what was going on.

I thought I had the answers.

And now,

I have no idea
what's gonna happen.