Inside -2007 ◆ (TRUSTED)

Inside 2007, we didn’t know we were living in a prologue. We thought we were just living in the present.

To be “inside” 2007 was to experience a final moment of pre-crash innocence. Optimism still existed, but it was fraying. Technology promised connection but had not yet delivered surveillance capitalism. The world was globalizing, but nationalism was dormant. It was the last full year before the financial crisis, before the iPad, before Instagram, before the Arab Spring, before the world fully realized that the future would be faster, angrier, and more unpredictable. inside -2007

Inside the multiplexes, 2007 was a landmark year for film: No Country for Old Men , There Will Be Blood , Ratatouille , and The Bourne Ultimatum . It was a year that balanced dark, complex storytelling with blockbuster craft. Inside 2007, we didn’t know we were living in a prologue