Saturday, June 25, 2011
DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE
Today's film was the documentary
in which a young guy gets involved with a girl on Facebook, writes back and forth, texts, calls. A virtual romance.
Then doubts creep in.
This guy has a brother who makes documentary films and is a compulsive videographer, so the whole things gets documented and, when it appears that there are questions about the validity of the girls identity, focus on running the thing down all the way to going to visit the girl.
The rest is up to you to see.
This is at once a real-life mystery and a dive into the realm of the internet age. How people see what they want to see and other people are who they want to be and the whole thing gets out of hand.
In this case, not out of hand in a bad way.
The guy here is really a gently, happy, person with a lot of heart and the film makers are caring about how they deal with the situation. While the story gets weirder and weirder, it also gets clearer and clearer. Lightness turns to dark but not in a terribly bad way.
Why am I babbling about this?
Because it is fascinating and explores every doubt and concern that I have had about the social networks and the people who get caught in them.
I would not mind seeing it again. A 4 out of Netflix5.
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