Disconnect

It is quite interesting the things that you can do on the Internet and social networking and here I am reviewing movies on the internet, and I promote myself and my projects by social networking.

After the fire it amazed me the amount of people that found it out on the internet and then ran out to help both me and my roommate when we needed it and that can be owed to social networking and the internet with how it connects us all and brings us together.

However there is a dark side to the internet. It has created a new area for criminals to work. The fact of the matter is that there are always going to be criminals and bullies but the internet gives them far more power as well as a larger net to ensnare their victims.

Cyber Bulling also comes to mind where it makes it where children can’t escape their tormenters when they are at home and the animosity is felt everywhere.

I have just attended a screening of an upcoming flick at the Angelica in Dallas and I think that many of you should check this out.

Documentary filmmaker Henry Alex Rubin makes his narrative film debut with Disconnect featuring an ensemble cast that includes Jason Bateman, Hope Davis, and Alexander Skarsgård.

Similar to Crash and Traffic this flick is more of an anthology following four different stories with characters that have been hurt by the internet in different ways and the stories all find themselves connected.

With Jason Bateman as Rich Boyd, a high power lawyer whose son Ben  is targeted by cyber bullies who assume create the identity of a girl that goes to his school who Ben begins to have feelings for leading to a humiliating encounter at school which leads to a tragedy.

Rich begins to correspond with one of the bullies which it turns out that his father is a privet internet investigator who is investigating the case of Identity theft where Derrick and Cindy Hull (Skarsgård and Paula Patton) have had their savings stolen and the prime suspect is a man that Cindy has been having an intimate relationship with on a chat room site.  

While all of this is happening television reporter Nina Dunham strikes up a friendship with a young cam host Kyle seeking to expose an illegal underground sex ring only to have her plan backfire after the FBI gets involved forcing her to expose Kyle’s identity placing him at risk as well as the others in the ring.

All of these events come to a head with an ending that you may not expect.

This movie is definitely recommended to all who are on the internet all of the time and aren’t aware of the repercussions of the events on the internet as well as the consequences of your actions.

The flick will both make you angry as well as make you think, Check it out.