https://staging2.theplaylist.net/sundance-review-heartbreaking-web-junkie-a-look-at-the-chinese-health-crisis-of-internet-addiction-20140120/ Fri, 13 May 2016 08:18:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 https://staging2.theplaylist.net/sundance-review-heartbreaking-web-junkie-a-look-at-the-chinese-health-crisis-of-internet-addiction-20140120/#comment-40193 Fri, 13 May 2016 08:18:10 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2014/more/uncategorized/sundance-review-heartbreaking-web-junkie-a-look-at-the-chinese-health-crisis-of-internet-addiction-89994/#comment-40193 I'll have to spend more time thinking about it, but this movie presents the modern existential crisis. I felt like the kids weren't addicted to anything; they had created or projected a new existence. They seem so normal when they're interacting with each other. But they became terrifyingly alien when they joke about how supposedly futile the treatment is (I felt weird that where the audience laughed with them, I got the chills and kind of shrank away). Any faith or optimism I had in them was utterly destroyed when Hope returns from isolation, a shell of what he was, following commands disturbingly reminiscent of a computer program.

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