Web Junkie
MovieTitle | Web Junkie |
User score | 6.6 |
Release date | Jan 20, 2014 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Hilla Medalia , Shosh Shlam |
Production country | China, Israel, United States of America |
Production companies | Impact Partners, New Israeli Foundation for Cinema and Television, kNow Productions, Warrior Poets, Chicken & Egg Films, Tribeca Film Institute, Medalia Productions |
Run time | 79 min. |
China is the first country in the world to classify Internet addiction as a clinical disorder. Caught in the Net features a Beijing treatment center where Chinese teenagers are being "deprogrammed," and follows the story of three boys from the day they arrive at the center, to their three-month treatment period, and their long awaited return home. The film provides a microcosm of modern Chinese life and investigates one of the symptoms of the Internet age. It examines inter-generational pressures and the disregard of the human rights of minors who get caught in the net.