History Film / Anon2018

* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: The killer hacks into Sal's eyes and makes him drive into oncoming traffic, (almost) step into an [[ElevatorFailure empty elevator shaft]], fall down a [[StaircaseTumble flight of stairs]] and get hit by an oncoming subway train.

* BuryYourGays: A lesbian couple who Anon had sex with are murdered along with the rest of her former lovers. This is {{downplayed}} given the rest of her lovers are men, and she survives (but Anon's sexual orientation is only established by reference to them).

* CoitusEnsues: All of the sex scenes have little to no buildup. Sal is simply seen while having sex with a woman in the first case. The second is justified as she's a sex worker he hires. In the third, he and The Girl briefly flirt before they're shown having sex.

* MysteriousWoman: A literal case in a society where no-one is supposed to be a mystery.

* LetOffByTheDetective: In one of Sal's cases shown early in the film, he's tasked with determining if a maid stole an expensive bracelet from a hotel room. In reviewing the maid's recording of the event, he finds that she ''did'' take the jewelry, and hock it to pay her rent. But Sal covers up the maid's crime... because of personal dislike for the client who accused the maid of theft. This example of the trope speaks less of the maid's sympathetic character, or Sal's desire to "to good" as a detective, than it does of the overall corruptness of the justice system and Sal's total disregard for rules. [[spoiler:And his decision to let the Girl go without arresting her.]]

* {{Cyberpunk}}: The world has become a drab dystopian place where everyone is under constant surveilance but chooses not to care except for a handful of hackers who buck the system by erasing themselves as well as helping other people cover up their indiscretions. The police are apatheic at best and maliciously incompetent at worse.

* TechnoDystopia: Privacy is dead, everyone is monitored constantly, and everyone knows everything about people they just met. The dull expressions on citizens' faces are due to them being smartphone zombies dialed {{up to eleven}}.

* AdultFear
** A grieving father insists on seeing the Minds Eye view of his son's suicide.
** Sal took his eyes off his infant son for a moment, during which he walked out onto the street and [[LookBothWays got hit by a car]]. The killer deletes Sal's happy memories of his son and forces him to watch his son's death over and over.

* ButNotTooBi: Most of Anon's former lovers were men, though one pair of women was also seen.

* AsYouKnow: Sal's partner mutters to him how Cyrus has been foisted on them by the Commissioner, then walks up and introduces him to Sal, even though Sal should know who Cyrus is from the Ether. Still, it's possible a more formal workplace like a government bureau would keep up a façade of politeness even if it's become irrelevant.

* LiteralMetaphor: Sal tries to convince his partner that a traffic accident was caused by the killer hacking his vision. When told he's seeing things, Sal gets annoyed because that's literally what's going on.

* LipstickLesbian: The lesbian couple who are murdered both have long hair and a very feminine presentation. Anon, who slept with them, has only a slightly less feminine look (but she's bisexual, judging by most of the lovers being men).

* RightUnderTheirNoses: [[spoiler:Cyrus Frears, a tech specialist [[HiredToHuntYourself assigned to the investigation]] by the Bureau Commissioner, turns out to be the killer. Turns out the Commissioner never sent him.]]

** [[spoiler:The killer turns out to be a hacking consultant [[HiredToHuntYourself brought in to help catch the Girl]]. When the Commissioner roasts them about this, the detective protests that the Commissioner recommended him. Turns out he never did--the killer just faked the order and no-one bothered to check it with the Commissioner's office as they're used to accepting everyone at face value.]]

* TransferableMemory:

** The killer is able to do this in real time, splicing the ImpendingDoomPOV onto the victim's Minds Eye so there's no record of the killer's face. When being chased by Sal an image of a subway train is spliced onto Sal's vision when there's actually an empty platform, to try and make him step onto it and get run over by the real train which arrives moments later.

* EyeRemember: Minds Eye records anything witnessed by the user, and these memories can be played back to find a killer. In this case the killer gets round this by hacking the victim's eyes so they can only [[ImpendingDoomPOV see what the killer sees]].

* {{Unperson}}: The Girl hasn't even created a false identity for herself, which would make it easier to evade detection (anyone looking at her sees an UNKNOWN: ERROR message instead of the usual social media data). She prefers to be totally anonymous rather than pretend to be someone she's not.

* HiddenVillain: [[spoiler:Late in the film, the true murderer appears after being lured by Sal, who in turn was manipulated by The Girl. He lasts about two minutes before being shot dead.]]

* FanserviceExtra: Two women appear in a single scene to have sex with Sal, then disappear. Another couple of women appear topless and making out before being murdered.