Web Junkie / Israel (Directors: Shosh Shlam, Hilla Medalia)-- China is the first country to label «Internet addiction» a clinical disorder.
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Web Junkie
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Web Junkie» (Israel)-- Directed by Shosh Shlam and Hilla Medalia.
Web Junkie doesn't do much probing, however.
Shot almost entirely at Daxing Boot Camp, a center in Beijing that offers treatment to young addicts, most of them teenage boys, «
Web Junkie» offers a troubling glimpse into anxieties that are hardly China's alone.
Shlam and Medalia haven't constructed the film particularly artfully... but
Web Junkie is a case where the access is so unexpected and revelatory that it's a wonder just to have the footage.
In keeping with the modern dogma of documentary reticence, which emphasizes showing over explaining, «
Web Junkie» refrains from trying to answer such questions.
For those who regularly find themselves feeling ashamed and useless after wasting much of the day Wiki - surfing or browsing random Yelp reviews, the actual subject of the documentary
Web Junkie will come as a huge relief.
Critics Consensus: While neither as deep nor as skillfully constructed as its subject might deserve,
Web Junkie remains a chillingly serious look at a nightmarish problem.
Critic Consensus: While neither as deep nor as skillfully constructed as its subject might deserve,
Web Junkie remains a chillingly serious look at a nightmarish problem.
Directed by two Israeli filmmakers,
Web Junkie focuses on one such center in Beijing, which operates more like a military boot camp than like a traditional detox center.
Or as the documentary
Web Junkie more colorfully describes it, «electronic heroin.»
This means
Web Junkie is either a missed opportunity (despite the filmmakers» jaw - dropping access) or it's a bit of willful misdirection: Come for the Internet addiction, stay in awe of the totalitarianism!
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When the sullen, confused teenage boys of Shosh Shlam and Hilla Medalia's doc
Web Junkie speak of being drugged and tricked into a three - month stay at a militaristic rehabilitation facility to cure their addictions to online gaming, you will probably wonder at the extremeness.
The documentary «
Web Junkie,» to be shown next Monday on PBS, highlights the tragic effects on teenagers who become hooked on video games, playing for dozens of hours at a time often without breaks to eat, sleep or even use the bathroom.
People are becoming
web junkies — dating online is nothing like meeting someone in real life.
If the scope had been broadened, the impact of «
Web Junkies» would have most likely been lessened.
The opening moments of «
Web Junkies» are surreal: we see a bunch of young Chinese boys stomping around what looks to be military barracks.
While almost the entire documentary is set at the Daxing Camp, «
Web Junkies» spends a little time at its outset describing what Internet culture is like in China.
Don't expect an email machine (this isn't one by any means), or an internet experience for
web junkies like myself (also not the one), and you may find yourself a happy camper if you find yourself in the market for a touch screen phone.
Financial planners and
Web junkies openly admit that the Internet is ripe hunting ground for scam artists.
Not exact matches
well the 4th place
junkies on this
web site will be happy... that is 2 points lost by a tactical and motivational midget... this was a way more important game than wednesday night as we do nt stand a cat in hells chance of going far in the cl... but needed a win to take us in to the chelsea game..
It's perfectly understandable when political
junkies and box office watchers conclude that
Web buzz augurs big things, but it's also perfectly backwards.
Web ads are useful, but at this point, most of the people looking at Lazio's web ads are the few who already support him, or are political junkies who will not make their voting decisions based on web a
Web ads are useful, but at this point, most of the people looking at Lazio's
web ads are the few who already support him, or are political junkies who will not make their voting decisions based on web a
web ads are the few who already support him, or are political
junkies who will not make their voting decisions based on
web a
web ads.
There are many
junky web sites around that sell «weight loss secrets» in the form of an eBook or manual or premium membership or even in actual book form.
My name is Amanda — health coach, recipe developer, food photographer, makeup
junkie, coffee addict, and the mastermind behind this here little space on the
web.
Reynolds previously appeared as the character in Screen
Junkies» popular
web series to promote the DVD release of «Deadpool.»
Keith wanders his neighborhood in vignettes that illustrate the
webbed connections existing between gangs of various ethnic backgrounds,
junkies, retirees, educational administrators, and law enforcers.
I'm a
web designer by trade, a one - time amateur bellydancer, a shoe lover and a travel
junkie.
Now is a perfect opportunity to show that CA is not a
junkie blog, but the most scientific blog in climate science in the
web.
I'm a technology fanatic and online
junkie, and I develop customized integrated
web marketing strategies that give my clients the best potential performance and ROI.
But have no fear,
web image
junkies.