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InRealLife

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InRealLife (2013)
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InRealLife takes us on a journey from the bedrooms of British teenagers to the world of Silicon Valley, to find out what exactly the internet is doing to our childrenInRealLife takes us on a journey from the bedrooms of British teenagers to the world of Silicon Valley, to find out what exactly the internet is doing to our childrenInRealLife takes us on a journey from the bedrooms of British teenagers to the world of Silicon Valley, to find out what exactly the internet is doing to our children
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    • Director
      • Beeban Kidron
    • Writer
      • Beeban Kidron(story)
    • Stars
      • Ryan
      • Ben
      • Sherry Turkle
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      • Beeban Kidron
    • Writer
      • Beeban Kidron(story)
    • Stars
      • Ryan
      • Ben
      • Sherry Turkle
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    • 5User reviews
    • 10Critic reviews
    • Awards
      • 1 nomination

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    Ryan
    • Self
    Ben
    • Self
    Sherry Turkle
    Sherry Turkle
    • Self - Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Nicholas Negroponte
    • Self - Founder of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab
    Norman Doidge
    • Self - Psychiatrist
    Nicholas Carr
    • Self - Author of 'The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains'
    David Hall
    • Self - Commercial and Strategy Manager, TelecityGroup
    Maggie Jackson
    • Self - Author of 'Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age'
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    • Self - 15 Years
    Luis von Ahn
    Luis von Ahn
    • Self - Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
    Andrew Blum
    • Self - Author of 'Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet'
    danah boyd
    danah boyd
    • Self - Researcher, Microsoft
    Jimmy Wales
    Jimmy Wales
    • Self - Co-Founder, Wikipedia
    Tobin
    • Self - 19 Years
    Patrick Bellanca
    • Self - Lead Producer and Designer, EA Sports
    Eddie Izzard
    Eddie Izzard
    • Self
    Daniel Solove
    • Self - Professor, The George Washington University
    Clifford Nass
    • Self - Professor, Stanford University
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      • Beeban Kidron
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      • Beeban Kidron(story)
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    3/10
    Uneducated movie for the even less educated
    The title and short description of this documentary sounded promising, but it already fell flat in the first few minutes where it actually tries to give itself the moral high point with an artsy intro which is completely free of information and rather just wastes time.

    It then wastes over 10 minutes to interview some teenage boys about why they like porn. The answer of course is a given: because of the depicted sex. D'uh! Who would have thought that?? Only the majority of people have watched porn, online or not, so everybody but the most removed from reality already know the answer to this waste of time.

    There's a lot of filler in between scenes that doesn't serve any purpose other than probably to set a mood which goes beyond me. A feeble attempt follows to explain to us how the internet came into existence. In the same sentence it's being explained that the heads behind it didn't foresee the role of porn, giving them somehow a negative slant. This kind of allows to reconstruct the question the interviewer asked, but which is not audible in the documentary: "Did the people behind the internet ever consider this could be used for porn?" Oh how very relevant... The same question could be asked regarding VHS-tapes, DVDs or Blurays, but what does that have to do with the supposed porn problem?

    Shortly after, the interviewer is standing in front of a server center and has someone explaining to us that there are data cables in the earth that transmit all the data - even very sensitive data - through it. No really...Who would have thunk that... She then asks the server guy: "I thought the internet was in a cloud?" That was 15 minutes in. At that point I decided to stop this sorry excuse for a documentary. Not being able to ask valid questions in 15 minutes or not giving at least a shred of valid information is one thing, but trying to be so high and mighty to lecture people on the dangers of the internet, yet not being able to tell cloud services from the internet is where I draw the line.

    It became painfully obvious that the people behind this movie have no clue about the subject matter. This will be obvious to anyone who has ever used the internet for more than sending emails. Don't waste your time on this.
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      • September 20, 2013 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
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    • Language
      • English
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      • In Real Life
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      • Studio Lambert
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      1 hour 30 minutes
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