Every single outfit in the movie Hackers

Tara Maria Gonzalez on the Cult Classic Cine Club rewatched Hackers, a cult classic starring Angelina Jolie as a hot ‘hacktivist’ who wears Vivienne Westwood.

It came out in 1995, six years after “Who Needs a Computer Anyway” circulated around college campuses. At that point, computers weren’t just equipped with programs to help students write essays or make pie-charts. The World Wide Web was happening. It was the early days of the internet, where no one really knew what they were doing but joyfully dedicated hours to coding hot pink fanpages for things like Ren & Stimpy, not sure if anyone would even see it. It felt human and weird, like taking a ride through the brains of people you didn’t know with no operative other than connection.

That’s also the appeal of Hackers. The movie itself has a pretty nonsensical plot. There’s a group of high school hackers who have aliases like Zero Cool, Acid Burn, and Cereal Killer. There’s a villainous former hacker who tries to frame them to cover up his fraud under the guise of preventing an oil spill, all with a virus called “Da Vinci.” There are yellow floppy disks they all wield like nunchucks. I find the storyline nearly impossible to follow every single time but it also doesn’t really matter, at least not to me.

The best parts of the film, aside from the outfits, is that it feels like what we all thought the internet would be. The hackers travel through a neon-colored cyberspace that looks like a digitized New York, skyscrapers erected out of long stretches of code.

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