NICO M.

RAGASA
PTC

Paycheck is one of those movies that had the potential to be really, truly great, but due
to a series of small problems, ended up as less than it could have been and largely
ignored. Ben Affleck plays a gifted engineer whose particular talent lies in reverse-
engineering a company's product so that a competitor can get a head-start to market. In
order to maintain deniability, his memory of each job is wiped, leaving him with just a
paycheck (hence the title). But after accepting a long-term job, he finds himself a
wanted man with no clue why, just a lot of questions. An outstanding premise. It is made
all the better by creative writing, particularly the inclusion of a MacGuyver-esque puzzle
that wends its way through the entire plot of the film.

One thing that bothers me about this story is that why would a security-conscious
company like Rethrink allow workers to renegotiate contracts to include random items.
They go through great pains to ensure that the memory of employees is wiped clean but
they get a ticket stud with the name of the city where the factory is located and a green
arm band that clearly is used to identity company workers escape. As interesting as the
idea is that these small items could be used like clues to unravel a predetermined plot, it
is simply not believable to me that these items would have been allowed in Jennings’
hands.

Reflection :

Every little thing could change the world and things has it own purpose.