Echo Chamber is a film that refuses to leave you comfortable. From the opening minutes, Alexei Voss establishes a tension that never truly lets up — a permanent vigilance, a growing suspicion toward every image, every line of dialogue. This is the mark of a good paranoia thriller: it infects you with its own paranoia.
The narrative construction is bold. Marcus Reyes, an investigative journalist, becomes progressively convinced that the surveillance AI he is investigating is manipulating him in return. The film plays its ambiguity — is this the character's paranoia or the system's reality? — with surgical precision, refusing easy resolution until the end.
Alexei Voss's direction adapts to this unease: slightly asymmetrical framings, a colour palette that gradually desaturates, dissolves that introduce doubt about temporal continuity. This is mise en scène in service of meaning.
The third act closes rather than resolves, which will divide audiences. But it is a choice consistent with the film's ambitions.