Comments on: Review: Rich And Emotionally Rewarding Documentary ‘Web Junkie’ https://staging2.theplaylist.net/review-rich-and-emotionally-rewarding-documentary-web-junkie-20140806/ Mon, 23 May 2016 05:52:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 By: Ran https://staging2.theplaylist.net/review-rich-and-emotionally-rewarding-documentary-web-junkie-20140806/#comment-145836 Mon, 23 May 2016 05:52:58 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2014/more/uncategorized/review-rich-and-emotionally-rewarding-documentary-web-junkie-273737/#comment-145836 Some parents see it as an "unhealthy addiction" if their kid is passionate about anything but studying. And only those parents, who are rather shallow minded and don't know how to parent, would send their poor kid to one of those "military" camps. To be honest, those kids grow addicted to the Internet are often because they try to escape from their terrible reality, say, parents who are fighting all the time, or parents that only know pushing their kid to study but do nothing else.
The way those camps treat kids are criticized in China too. They will be soon banned I believe. It's funny people from other countries always assume the Chinese government is controlling everything, or trying to. In fact the government is not to blame in this situation, but the parents.

]]> By: nyguy https://staging2.theplaylist.net/review-rich-and-emotionally-rewarding-documentary-web-junkie-20140806/#comment-145837 Mon, 23 May 2016 05:52:58 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2014/more/uncategorized/review-rich-and-emotionally-rewarding-documentary-web-junkie-273737/#comment-145837 I saw this doc and think it's beautifully titled. Yes, there is something creepy about the way the Chinese government (and military!) try to manage the situation. At the same time these kids (boys in the film but there are girls at the camp too) have no empathy for anyone else and many are dropping out of school at 14,15 and 16 to sit and play online, one character says he played for 15 days straight, nodding off and starting again when he woke up in front of the computer.

These kids are addicts, it's not like they are using the internet to check up on political events or study something. The terrain they plug into (per the documentary) is exclusively video games like Warcraft and one teen spent over $8k of his parents money playing it. This review acts like these are just normal teens but there is something terribly wrong here when all these boys admit they have no friends and prefer online living to reality. These parents say they have tried everything and nothing worked and this place was a last resort. It was heartbreaking but blaming the parents and having no siblings for this just doesn't fly.

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