Disconnect – 8

The problems are well-worn: a journalist’s too-close relationship with a source; a couple’s inability to communicate after a child is lost; teens hazing a classmate who is ‘different’; parents and teens navigating the shoals of adolescence. What is new is the setting, the world of the web and social media, where communication is typed and no one sees, or even really knows, the person you are dealing with.  Identity theft, online pornography and viral media make this movie seem oh-so-of-the-moment (hello, Manti Te’o!), but the underlying themes, needs and frustrations have been with us forever. This film was powerful, using Crash-like parallel stories that started quietly then built to a violent crescendo that resolved nothing but somehow satisfied.

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