‘Another Body’ Review: A Look at the Brave New World — and the Victims — of Deepfake Porn
variety.comOwen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic In too many thrillers to count, the key scene, and the most suspenseful one, arrives when the hero or heroine, investigating a chemical spill or a murder or what have you, sits down at the computer and deep dives into a web search, the information-age detective work culminating in that inevitable “Aha!” moment of discovery.
So here’s where the darkness leads. There’s a sequence like that in “Another Body,” a groundbreaking, creepy, fascinating, and important documentary about a phenomenon that’s only going to grow in significance: the deepfaking of pornography.
That means: the lifting of images of real people off the web, whose faces are then digitally grafted onto pornographic footage to create a fraudulent porn file that looks as real as reality.
Boogie nights? Try steal-your-body-and-soul nights. In “Another Body,” the central figure is Taylor Klein, a 22-year-old graduate student in engineering who this happened to.
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