Interview | Director Kevin Macdonald on bringing his documentary instincts to ‘The Runner’ and capturing modern paranoias
Director Kevin Macdonald discusses his new psychological thriller 'The Runner,' which explores modern anxieties regarding technology and surveillance. The film stars Gal Gadot as a mother forced to follow cryptic commands to save her abducted son.
Why it matters
The film reflects contemporary cultural fears about digital dependency and the potential for technology to be used as a tool of manipulation.
Scottish filmmaker Kevin Macdonald has made a career out of studying the human breaking point. From the agonising physical entrapment of Touching the Void (2003) to the real-time hostage terror of the Academy Award-winning One Day in September (1999), Macdonald’s lens consistently permeates the human psyche as characters process claustrophobic, life-or-death pressure.
In his latest psychological thriller, The Runner , he taps into technology’s chokehold on humans. At a time when we have handed control of our lives to the phones in our palms, the film highlights the terrifying extent of this dependency and the ways it can be turned against us.
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