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Chet Mellema

Heartbeat Detector
By Chet Mellema | March 12, 2008

In the last several years, moviegoers have been inundated with films—narrative and documentary features alike—that depict the decaying soul of the individual in the service of corporate ambition, but I can recall no such work as dark or morose as Heartbeat Detector.

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