2020, Docudrama, English, Netflix, 7.8/10 IMDB, Directed by Jeff Orlowski
Social network addiction, decoded using a new lens, that incites silent shock waves and urges the need for weaning off from one’s own addiction however minimal one may manifest it to be.
Evils of social media, documented with a parallel drama of a family’s addiction. Even if not an eyeopener, it sure is an informative series that insists on keeping our addictions at bay, the beauty of it being, one may know what categorizes as addiction and what doesn’t.
Keeping aside the unwarranted hype that preludes the crucial information by introducing some big names of the trade, it sets the stage for something that might have fatal consequences if not kept under check at the right time.
The drama that intercepts the interviews of the big wigs, is mundane but the turbulence of the character in the end, is an unexpected turn of events that we can correlate to the everyday news channels in our living rooms. When it is a result of a subtle innocent addiction, it throws awful lot of emphasis on our daily usage of these networks and never realize that we are being manipulated and lured.
When the Addiction Medicine Fellowship Director of Stanford University throws light, we realize that we are caught in the web of these networking sites and ought to de-route towards rationing our activities on these domains with immediate effect.
The highlight of the film is when, Google’s responses on globally common phenomena, varies from person to person, depending the place one lives and personal interest. Just when we believe ‘God-sent’ Google is here to substitute all kinds of tutors who surfaced the earth ever, its a shame to realize its a mere game of puppeteering that we have fallen prey to all these years.
Its like the line from the film Jurassic Park II- ‘ Life finds its way’, even thought it is unintentional, seems like the plugin are having a life of their own and are trying to conquer the human species.
I could hear a scream within me, ‘Lets not totally dodge our commonsense and try harder to move our faces from the screens of our gadgets, to see the divine creations and tangible humans around us’.
Good watch.