I hope you're talking about the original The Jackal. That's a great movie that has fascinated me essentially because of the theme you've identified. A truly motivated, highly-intelligent person could commit horrendous acts without detection. So far, whoever committed this assassination has succeeded; but I suspect, there is simply too much surveillance in 2025 to get away with it.
edit: regarding the surveillance issue, wonder what the retention on google earth/maps logs is for the location of the shooting?
Someone at work recently got bit by unexpected YAML parsing a git commit hash that contained a substring which was a valid number in scientific notation (IIRC 5e38031).
> I have long since deeply integrated my exercise with my cannabis consumption
Me too - I love playing basketball high. I'm getting a little too old to play and sadly indoor hoops has lost a lot of appeal in the COVID era. I still love shooting free throws and seeing a ball go through a hoop.
I didn't mention this but I wasn't a regular swimmer prior to this year. I do think that the novelty of swimming helped me substitute it for cannabis. One makes so much progress starting a new thing, diminishing marginal returns and all.
With a lot of things, for instance this bug I'm procrastinating on right now, just attempting the objective feels good. Every day I succeeded at swimming and not getting high so far has felt good.
For my new year's resolution, I decided to swap out my daily cannabis use with swimming; and so far this year, I've actually pulled it off and swim about 1250 meters a day. It's only 25 laps and takes about 30 minutes of actual exercise. For me, it taps into a lot of the same mental benefits of relaxation and focused thought I experienced when under the influence of cannabis.
I decided to do this, in part, because I needed a tolerance break. I'm also looking forward to getting high and watching Dr. Strangelove again. One issue, I think, people struggle with is making things so binary. It may help you to stop now if you recognize you can start again in the future.
edit: It appears to be Seven Worlds, One Planet narrated by you know who.