The scene doesn’t include a keyboard. Or a computer mouse. But it shows why Michael Mann’s Blackhat may be the best hacker movie ever made.
As the film approaches the end of its second act, a network engineer played by Chinese actress Tang Wei deliberately spills coffee on a stack of papers neatly stapled at the corner. It’s a report of some kind, but you can’t make out the words. And when the film cuts to Wei in a taxi somewhere in Jakarta, we see her holding the pages out the window, drying the coffee stains.