Directed by Paul Hyett
Starring Hannah Arterton, Tom Conti and Rosie Day
Running time: 1 hour and 29 minutes

by Samuel Antezana

A satiric assault on the senses, Paul Hyett’s Peripheral is an angry and, at times, effective film about the dangers of technological infiltration and surveillance within our rapidly evolving digital world. The story follows Bobbi Johnson (Hannah Arterton), a young novelist made infamous by her incendiary debut novel Bite the Hand, who struggles to write her second novel, Peripheral. Bobbi’s manipulative publisher, Jordan, pushes her to leave her outdated typewriter for a new smart editing software that may not just be altering her new novel, but possibly her body and mind.