It's a very real name! There is really no connection... between the three stories shown. That is, all the stories are generally good, with meaning and lyrics, but at the same time, surprisingly, they did not turn out to be a film. The three stories develop without any overlap, which raises the question, “What do they even do in one movie?” In my opinion, the best example of a film consisting of different stories, but closely woven into a tangle is “11.14”, in second place “Love Bitch” and in third “American Beauty”, but here the authors did not even try to somehow combine these storylines, and this is a huge minus. But if this is not enough, then this is the second – all the stories have no ending, we never found out whether the hanged man came to his senses, whether the cops tied the reporter and whether the couple found the stolen money. Someone will say “this is not the main thing in the film” – I admit this possibility, but the fact is that the film does not provide a replacement for this expectation, there is nothing impressive that hits the feelings in it. I stopped and checked 2 times the next day. The only plus is shown how destructive it is for other people that you interfere in their lives. But all this turned out to be unsaid and unseen.
Social media and what it can do to users. The film is tragic. Unlike ordinary American films, there is no happy ending. But it is worth watching to avoid the trouble of communicating on the networks. In addition, the reasons why people are in them are shown. Good cast.
The film is certainly necessary and instructive, but it was shot in a clumsy way. Three stories, three tragedies, in one way or another and all of them are not finished, what happened in the end in each individual case, the viewer is offered to think up, and no hints, it is a pity, but it could turn out a masterpiece, and even on such a topical topic, but unfortunately the film fell into the wrong hands. . . 7 out of 10.
The social drama of Henry Alex Rubin “No Connection” in its structural component is similar to the films “Clash” and “The Air I Breathe” – it combines three unrelated stories under a common theme: the story of a married couple who became a victim of an Internet fraudster, the story of a teenager who became a victim of Internet bullying and the story of a reporter who found an interesting story about private online chats on the Internet.
Each of the themes was relevant in 2012 (when the film was released), and they remain relevant to this day. Each is very instructive for those who may be committing some rash actions on the Internet. This applies even to banal communication in messengers and social networks, where it is enough to send the wrong picture or write the wrong word to fall into the skillfully placed trap of a fraudster. You will be “screamed” and no matter how you try to erase the sent – it will remain with the one who caught you.
The same applies to harassment through the Internet, when verbal cruelty sometimes becomes stronger than physical and can force a person to the most desperate actions. Yes, it is not even necessary to screen something - it is enough to let a rumor that someone for some reason has a stigma in some gun and that's all - consider it done. This is how hearing is born, this is how gossip is born. And by the way, in 2000, the eponymous film “Gossip” with James Marsden was released, just telling about what is enough for gossip to heal its life! I recommend watching this movie!
The film, judging by the title, can tell about a sudden information collapse, which affects millions of people, because they have no means to exchange data between themselves. But no. The name “no connection” does not mean that someone will hear in the handset “Subscriber is out of network service area” or the Internet user will see a message that “connection is interrupted”. We are talking about the fact that people have lost contact with each other, lost interest in live communication, headlong leaving the world wide web. This is clearly indicated by the slogan of the film - "Look up", hinting at the fact that a person should break away from their gadgets and go online into the real world - raise his head on a living, not a virtual interlocutor.
The film raises more topics than three. Here is the relationship of parents with children, when some are immersed in work, while others believe that they are not loved and therefore close themselves. Here is the question of trusting the other person, and, of course, the relationship between the spouses, when the husband and wife are distant from each other and often solve pressing problems, hide behind monitors and do not hurry to sit down at the table and discuss what should have been discussed for a long time.
As in “Clash”, and in “The Air I Breathe”, there is a good cast in “No Connection”: Frank Grillo, Jason Bateman, Hope Davis, Alexander Skarsgard, Paula Patton, Mikael Nyquist.
“No Connection” catches with its stories that are simple and understandable to most people. These stories have become commonplace and in each of them there is nothing out of the ordinary. The film makes it clear to everyone who uses the Internet through computers, laptops, tablets, phones and other gadgets – think before you take the next step on the Internet.
But look at you. I do not impose my opinion on anyone.
A difficult plot picture shows the problems of relationships between different people through the prism of communication.
This is perhaps the main paradox of the present time. We have so many different kinds of connections, and we are still alone and misunderstood. In fact, it got worse. With the development and modification of technology, people connected not only by marriage, but also by blood kinship are increasingly distant. They are obscured from each other by screens of gadgets, displays of large plasma TVs, endless conversations on the phone about work even at home. The virtual world of funny and often stupid videos is gradually turning into a quiet haven for us.
Live communication is the main means of communication for us, living people, which we often forget. Thanks to it, we evaluate the right candidate when hiring, gradually get to know a stranger and fall in love, discover new horizons.
As Bradbury wrote in his dystopia, people have forgotten how to listen and hear. The heroes of the film blindly follow this statement. Everything seems static, everyone lives his life, as it seems to him, right. But at some point, the screen falls, and you have to make informed decisions.
The cast was selected competently, each fit into his character. You hate them and you hate them at the same time.
The first imperceptible, but affecting your feelings behind-the-scenes music of the incomparable Max Richter collects shots into a single image.
Spend your precious time watching this movie. It will be something to think about in the dark.
8 out of 10
“The internet, it doesn’t connect.” This is a cluster of loneliness. We are together, but we are all one. The Illusion of Communication, the Illusion of Friendship, the Illusion of Life. – Janusz Leon Wisniewski
The Internet is the world wide web that unites people. Music, photos, movies. The world simply cannot do without it. We sit on social networks every day, send mail and post photos on Instagram. Sometimes without thinking about the consequences. Henry Alex Rubin’s film abstracts itself from the Internet. There are several episodes that tell about the dangers of the World Wide Web. Here are the guys who decided to play a classmate through a social network. And a person sitting in a psychological support chat, desperately seeking help from fellow heartbroken people. And a private chat, where teenagers provide intimate virtual services. All these stories are united by a single plot - the Internet, virtuality, sometimes we do not notice real human feelings and real reality.
And I have to say, this is an excellent social indie drama, featuring all the truthful Internet traps. Of course, everyone knows such a series as “Black Mirror”, where there is a very caustic satire on virtuality, gadgets, social networks and other progressive attributes. He does this sometimes in a humorous way, initially fantasizing about the future. “No connection” is presented more as a parable. This is a very serious drama, telling without a bit of exaggeration or understatement about the dangers of the Internet. The action takes place right now, without fiction, demonstrating reality. But the picture does not do it moralistically and persistently, it shows what can happen if you do so, what will be the consequences of this, etc., etc.
But not just one episode is replaced by another and in turn. Some stories are so interrelated. The film, so to speak, has a second bottom. And it allows you to think about other social problems, even those that relate to simple human life. Of course, the focus is on virtuality and its components. From the beginning to the climax of all episodes. But the film also has its share of expressiveness. In the end, a very strong and important quality for each person is love. The concept is not just held, it is complemented by more interesting assonant images. The actors do a great job with their tasks. The characters are detailed and at the end they experience catharsis. I think they have gained experience and will not make any more mistakes in their naivety and stupidity, which I wish you. Where there is a net, there will be spiders. Remember that.
The Internet, it doesn't connect. It's a cluster of loneliness. We're kind of together, but we're all one. The Illusion of Communication, the Illusion of Friendship, the Illusion of Life (Janusz Leon Wisniewski)
The Internet is a world wide web that connects people. Music, photos, movies. The world simply cannot do without it. We sit on social networks every day, send mail and post photos on Instagram. Sometimes without thinking about the consequences. Henry Alex Rubin’s film abstracts itself from the Internet. There are several episodes that tell about the dangers of the World Wide Web. Here are the guys who decided to play a classmate through a social network. And a person sitting in a psychological support chat, desperately seeking help from fellow heartbroken people. And a private chat, where teenagers provide intimate virtual services. All these stories are united by a single plot - the Internet, virtuality, sometimes behind which we do not notice real human feelings and real reality.
And I have to say, it's a great social indie drama featuring all the truthful internet traps. Of course, everyone knows such a series as Black Mirror, where there is a very caustic satire on virtuality, gadgets, social networks and other progressive attributes. He does this sometimes in a humorous way, initially fantasizing about the future. “No connection” is presented more as a parable. This is a very serious drama, telling without a bit of exaggeration or understatement about the dangers of the Internet. The action takes place right now, without fiction, demonstrating reality. But the picture does not do it moralistically and persistently, it shows what can happen if you do this, what will be the consequences of this, etc., etc.
But not just one episode is replaced by another and in turn. Some stories are so interrelated. The film, so to speak, has a second bottom. And it allows you to think about other social problems, even those that relate to simple human life. Of course, the focus is on virtuality and its components. From the beginning to the climax of all episodes. But the film also has its share of expressiveness. In the end, a very strong and important quality to each person - love. The concept is not just held, it is complemented by more interesting assonant images. The actors do a great job with their tasks. The characters are detailed and at the end they experience catharsis. I think they have gained experience and will not make any more mistakes in their naivety and stupidity, which I wish you. Where there is a net, there will be spiders. Remember that.
Everything you do on the web can be seen by someone else.
Most potential viewers, after reading a short synopsis, will form quite certain expectations about the impact of the Internet and social networks on our lives. In fact, Disconnect has only modernized a number of social problems that have existed, are and will be, and their development through communication is only one option. Let’s call things what they are — we rarely look for friends online, and the overwhelming motivation, one way or another, is tied to the topic of relationships and sex. So the three mini-stories of the film, each in its turn, address this need, just received, in recent years, new opportunities. So we don't need to change concepts -- this isn't a movie about the social boom. It is about the sought-after problems in communication of people.
The plot is made up of three small stories, which are given about an equal share of screen time with a regular change between them. If you looked at them separately and asked a question, you would get three equally interesting independent stories, the answer is no. And there is no downward gradation of interest. One of the lines is boring and inexpressive, but the other two fall into those emotions that catch on. Bewilderment, powerlessness, indignation, confusion, empathy for the characters or entire situations in which they are involved. The story of a sensational report on the exploitation of minors, like the school joke, has a dual effect on its participants.
The feature of filming this film, as quickly becomes apparent, is to reduce the gap between the actors and the audience. The digital camera constantly invades the personal space of screen characters, broadcasts directly from the inside of the dialogues, from behind the back or the lid of the laptop, from personal correspondence. Like digital technology, like the Internet, this technique removes the usual barriers in everyday life for a person – which he hardly has the courage to break without a network. Therefore, another variant of the adaptation of the original name is disunity, which gradually decreases with our immersion in what is happening. And the quality of the production remains quite high - it is not amateur film mounted on the knees. The operator quite skillfully chooses plans, works with lighting, the composition of the frame.
Actor Jason Bateman, who with fatigue in the eyes takes on new comedies and perfectly acts out in dramas, is simply magnificent here. The same applies to the main characters of the two stories mentioned above. When box office ambitions, budget concerns are left behind, human emotions come to the fore. When in the finale of the story the plot brings these lines together, at their highest point of development, even under the beautiful soundtrack from Max Richter, you fit into the screen with satisfaction. Very rare feeling for this kind of half author, half mass, cinema.
8 out of 10
There are no main characters, no clear storyline. Just scraps. Stories. Our whole life is made up of such pieces. But it only benefits the tape. And the aftertaste from watching remains persistent, tart, like a good wine. After all, there is no flashing of heroes in latex costumes, which you forget after the credits.
The web, the network, whatever you call it, is shown here on the other side. Things like this can happen to any of us. Nobody's insured. For many, the password is the date of birth. And getting access to everything or bringing a teenager to the edge is very easy now. It is easy because it is a connection.
I’ve been thinking for a long time about how much all these social networks, the Internet and other features are disfiguring our world out of the box. All this is designed to help us, to develop us, but in fact it turns out that it kills us, leads to degradation and decline. Sometimes you think and it becomes terrible how much trouble and sorrow brought modern technology to the world.
I expected something more from the film. I was sure that it was a one hundred percent thriller with a chase or hide-and-seek and of course with a mysterious mystery. And it turned out to be one hundred percent boring drama. It shows several broken lives through the web. And all two hours we watch these lives trying to escape, to get out of the hole, which fell through their own stupidity. There is no adrenaline in this film. And there are only moralistic stories that undoubtedly need to be shown to today's teenagers.
The main advantage of the picture, of course, is Jason Bateman. He won my heart first in the comedy film “Intolerable bosses”, and then in the real, chilling thriller “Gift”. This time Bateman did not disappoint and showed himself in all its glory. Honestly, I probably watched the movie because of this actor.
But aside from Bateman, there’s another gift to the viewer in this film, a truly tense, beautiful and eerie moment. That's how Ben figured out how to solve his problems. It's very beautiful and bright. During this moment, emotions go off the scale, blood rushes to the head, and the heart beats madly in the chest. Dramatic, lively moment.
In the end, the film is mostly boring, but it will definitely be useful for teenagers. It wouldn’t be bad to show it as an extracurricular reading. So that children understand what is good and what is bad. How easy it is to get into a real mess because of a joke. That you should not trust everyone around, and especially the people on the network.
A vivid example while watching the film "There is no connection" for me personally becomes the notorious "Clash" Paul Haggis. The best film of 2005, according to the Academy. Both films are similar in their intentions to demonstrate the cause and effect of clashes between the fates of completely different people. Only "There is no connection" is distinguished by the presence in the plot of modern technologies as a weighty reason for various actions and situations.
I didn’t like the first 30-40 minutes of the movie. Viewers understand that there is no main character and antihero in the plot. We have seen the use of simultaneous parallel stories more than once. Well, the characters in the movie cannot live without using gadgets with unlimited Internet in addition. Instead of finding relationships, it is better to go online. Instead of a sensible conversation with the offspring, it is better to go online. Even instead of mocking the pariah in the face-to-face scheme, it is better to go online. And such an unremarkable setting scene by scene brings the audience to a good climax, which, thanks to the effect of slow-mo, suddenly acquires an exciting dynamic.
It is worth admitting that the notorious modern technologies have nothing to do with the disunity and disunity between people. Technologies designed to unite all of humanity on Earth did not come from the sky and were not found somewhere in the middle of the desert. They were created by Homo sapiens. Given the fact that people can be fallacious to the latest and, as they call themselves, great inventions, the importance of human achievements is habitually overestimated. That’s how we got to the point where our minds go crazy when we don’t have the internet (even for five minutes). Turn on the internet and users will do great things. Yes, if you equate to this viewing the news feed, sending messages, looking at photos and furious surveillance of “likes” (who, when, where).
Of course, the actions described above do not appear in the film "No Connection". But the influence of the Internet on human relations is present. Heartbroken because of the death of a baby spouses, similar in the network and unlike in life teenagers, a journalist and the hero of her report – all of them and not only to their surprise do not understand how they came to virtual chaos that penetrated into real life. Andrew Stern's script has many different reasons to think. Thus, the film "Henry Alex Rubin" can find a response from many viewers.
I was very pleased with the presence in "No Connection" actors who do not apply the label "Hollywood superstar". All in place. Especially pleased with the bearded Jason Bateman. But he pleased not with the vulgar jokes characteristic of his characters in comedies, but with a game that also surprises. A very different character from the young John Bobo. After all, in "This Stupid Love" he was a talkative romantic hero.
Good movie. Any time of the day. I looked at midnight and I wasn’t tired. If someone asks me for advice on a film about human relationships, I'd be happy to suggest "No Connection." May the power be with you!
“No Connection” is an acutely social drama about the dangers of excessive use of social networks and online life. The viewer has three dishes to choose from: an intimate chat, a social network and a support group. At first glance, they are all harmless. Somewhere a prank, somewhere a joke, somewhere an attempt to find support after a family tragedy in conjunction with a closed husband.
Each of the lines is individual, but still they are connected by a barely perceptible thread. “There is no connection” – does not call for the rejection of life on the network, although in the American box office and you can interpret the name in the imperative mood – “Disconnect”. There is only a call to be careful, because it is known for certain that we are much braver online than in 3D life. Courage and stupidity are synonymous.
I don’t think there’s much to say about acting. I only noticed Jason Bateman, who stood out from the rest of the company. Alexander Skarsgaard left a double opinion. It seemed to me that the Marine should not leave the impression that he was about to cry.
The film deals with problems from teenage violent entertainment on the Internet, to problems in semen life. Teenagers, indeed, wanted only to have fun, but being online is not difficult to bend the stick, although the authors clearly blame not only pranksters, but also the alleged victim of their prank.
“No connection” doesn’t make you think about how you spend your time online. It only shows the possible tragic outcomes when you forget to control your movements on the global network. However, some characters enjoy being connected in a literal and figurative sense. And here arises out of nowhere a person who wants to pull out of the rotten pit, in her opinion, the victim of someone’s vulgar thoughts and thirst for profit. But isn’t that what drives her? The plot is profit, and fame is vulgarity. Isn't it? And again, the question arises, is the victim, in fact, in the sense that before the eyes of the reporter?
The author emphasizes that the era of social networks takes a lot of life from modern man. If earlier, live communication was a way to alleviate suffering, now you can talk in the club of an anonymous online support club. But there's a big problem. And here you can also be deceived, laugh at your feelings and robbed, as well as a merry man who accidentally entered the club of anonymous hearts in order to mock the suffering of others.
I won’t say that I was impressed with the film, but there are spectacular stage moves. And a pleasant aftertaste from watching gives the ground for writing a review.
Pretty pretty, close to each other people, invisibly painfully suffer from alienation. Several families move their days without feeling anyone else's pain. A daring journalist, in pursuit of sensation, inducing a young man - a porn model to unpredictable intimacy. A wife left alone to experience the loss of a child by her husband. A widower is a detective who quit his job to train his child. A lawyer who does not notice what is happening in his dysfunctional housing.
Being at different ends of the wire, these people are connected by a network that has become the source of their personal troubles, to varying degrees tragically unfolding a previously measured life, forcing one to join in the study of the criminal connections of a corrupt guy, others to hunt down a cyber fraudster, and the third to rush to search for the causes of the suicidal impulse of a talented boy, cruelly deceived by an equally unhappy peer looking for answers, provoking the revelation of his discouraged father’s loss.
The connection of the proposed plots is conditional, and, despite the intersecting characters, these stories run in disparate lines that contain typical signs of psychological trauma, which is the cause of misunderstanding, as well as a source of unjustified cruelty, the outbreak of which changes the usual course of things, transferring the characters of the picture from the pseudo-peaceful realm to the dissection of network revelations that animate the contact of understanding, at least among those who have not lost their consciousness and are still able to understand and forgive.
Despite the instructor’s tone of all misadventures, each local character has its own weakness, expressing which the actors create a dramatic nerve of this picture, the scripted pragmatism of which is leveled by the emotional intemperance of the performers who have approached their role to the level of complete identification, allowing them to neglect the sins of moral teachings, giving themselves to watching as love forgiving guilt is destroyed and resurrected again, with a very timid chance for complete redemption.
Extremely worthy film, although it looks in the tape of the general stream is not very remarkable - no Hollywood stars, romantic stories and horrors, just a movie about what is happening now and what is happening everywhere. And what does that sometimes mean?
Another undoubted plus is the interweaving of different storylines, it is always interesting in the cinema.
As you can see, Disconnect (I prefer to use this name) combines stories that show relationships through the prism of modern technology.
Who is your partner on the Psychological Help Forum? Who does your son talk to in the evening without raising his head from his iPad? What can you buy for money by entering a credit card number?
In general, cinema is not about modernity, but about the essence of humanity - the current state of technology only changes this essence - and it gets a little tougher - solely because of anonymity and because it turns off fear of the consequences.
A very worthy movie, everyone will find a story and heroes to their liking. I recommend it to everyone except fans of specific genres.
The Internet is like an atomic bomb exploding in the real world.
Tell me a real life movie. So that there was not fiction, utopia or dystopia, but the real itself: staying in the world rather than the latest technologies, but a lack of communication and attention, when everything is around to avoid it, from social networks to ... the same social networks. And in the middle of this vicious circle, life warms up, which is not real.
I will. Such a movie is "No Connection." Three related stories where the Internet is just a starting point, a little dynamite in a big building, where there are a lot of people who have something to say, but pixels and anonymity only hide their real thoughts, desires, unspoken pain. Here in the role of a bomb – “false” communication and personal loneliness in a space where your virtual shell is always in contact with the rest of the virtual shells of all mankind. Of course, this does not mean that you are really close to people.
Two families living on the principle of “everything is good and bad can not be”; two lovers, burdened with grief for a dead child; two single people, one of whom wants to save another who may not need to be saved. I won't give you any details. Just to say that for the debut art tape, this work is really brilliant. The director surprisingly combined real feelings in it (not to be confused with sentimental echoes of tabloid love novels), and the tragic, sometimes uncompromising, but quite solvable above-mentioned relevance of the whole situation. The problem is raised: the Internet, designed to bring people together from all over the world, distances from those who are literally behind the neighboring wall. What's next? Next, not a long reflection on how bad it is and let’s cry together, but a clear picture of the chaos created.
I was very moved and pleased that the director and writer decided not to dwell on the topic of social networks and chats for all their time. They showed these phenomena of technology against the background of real life, and not vice versa. Although the finale here with a “double bottom”, when first one seems, and another comes, it is logically understandable: if everything ended completely bad, none of the characters would realize anything except the audience, and everything would be in vain. For the heartbreaking end is not always instructive and justified to the fullest extent.
And the camera and acting work want to praise and praise. And, of course, the music. But these are only parts of the overall mechanism. The main thing is that after watching me, which is rare, I thought: “I wish there were more such films.” It doesn't matter what they say. It is important that they are natural, vital, laid-back. You believe in such pictures - each element in them perfectly fits into the general narrative series, and at the same time, you do not feel excessive manipulation of your feelings or some stupid falsehood in the game. As if the actors who star in big projects, for a while decided to forget who they are, and reincarnated along with the least known “lycedes” in ordinary people stuck in everyday life. But that's not the point. The most necessary element of such stories is identification with one’s own life and taking screen reality for the most real. That’s when we get into these kinds of stories and know if something should change in our own personal world.
8 out of 10
Today started with a hot cup of coffee and watching No Connection. The film had been lying for a long time, but somehow everything was forgotten or there was something else that caught on. And the viewing was postponed until tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, a week later, a month later. But as practice shows, what I so stubbornly postponed turns out to be just the nugget I was looking for.
I will immediately say that in films I appreciate interesting storylines, the very perception of the picture and the acting. All possible mistakes do not matter to me, if everything else is at a decent level. So let's get past the technical side, like a twitching camera sometimes. This is what makes the film more realistic, but not everyone is happy about it. But I was distracted.
So, plot. Three novels. Three different stories related to the World Wide Web. We see teenagers, a family in crisis, literally hanging on edge, and a reporter chasing killer material. She often likes to use people to achieve her goals. Each story is interesting and different from the other. There is not even a desire to see the end of one, but somehow spit on the other.
Heroes live their lives, face unexpected twists and turns that change them. They change their views, values and worldview in general. They feel, live, breathe, suffer, love, fear. For the most part, you and your feelings. Sometimes only terrible pain can teach the most important lesson. Know how many roads are close to you!
How many times have parents failed to understand their children because they thought everything was fine? They could not see what their child was going through. Does not notice how quickly the teenager closes, not seeing support from no one!
How many times has a tragedy made two people close to each other separate? They experience their grief in themselves, feel sorry for themselves, but at the same time, forgetting that it hurts not only them.
How many times do you use others to achieve your goals without noticing how you break the feelings of others? And when you realize that you hurt someone who was dear to you, you realize that it is too late to fix anything.
The painting by Henry Alex Rubin is permeated with deep meaning, sharp emotions. I unknowingly put everything on myself and could not hold back my tears. The film left behind a kind of bitter aftertaste and a desire to call my family and tell them how much I love them, before something happened.
How much we trust social media! Fingers knock on keys, we share stories, communicate, laugh. Thousands of messages, videos, photos, pictures... We send files to each other.
Maybe we should spend more time outside the virtual world. Learn to talk about your feelings and think before you do anything.
The cast was delighted. I like to discover new young actors, a different role, an established actor and just familiar faces. The game is amazing! Beautiful! So much emotion in facial expressions, gestures, look. Conversations are neither empty nor meaningless.
I will mention Alexander Skaarsgard, Jason Bateman and Frank Grillo. Three fathers, each from their own history, but truly loving their children! And you just can't put it into words when you watch them reveal their identity. This needs to be seen.
Young stars, Colin Ford, Jonah Bobo and all the already famous Max Tyriot perfectly coped with their roles and conquered me.
The rest were still beautiful, but I will list them. I'll tell you about the heroes, you know, sometimes you watch a movie and you share characters, this one is good and this one is bad.
That's not gonna happen here, no. These are ordinary people with their own shortcomings and advantages. I could not condemn any of them, only the question swirled “Why didn’t you do it earlier?”
But at the same time, I understand how sometimes it is difficult to trust.
The musical accompaniment successfully harmonized with the atmosphere of the film, adding more drama and charm to it. Max Richter wrote a great song that stuck in my soul and is already playing on the VK page.
In general, those who love such acutely social dramas, with a maximum of emotions and feelings - this film will be a real find.
I’d call it Reconnect or Reconnect, but more on that later.
The overall impression is extremely positive. Mostly due to the story based on children and adolescents.
Dividing the film into several stories that have a common background is not a novelty for a long time, but always effective. This creates even more interest in viewing. It is not uncommon for the viewer to like only one story out of several, and like one, so the assessment of the whole film is good. It's kind of a psychological trick. In this case, he could play his own, because a film with such a trick automatically expands the audience. Interesting for those who are 15 and those over 30. The main thing is that this “chip” must be used correctly.
The actors were happy. There are no brilliant faces from Hollywood, everything fresh, looks new. I was especially surprised to see Blumqvist, and even in a deeply secondary role. He is a good actor, and his hero in this film fits his personality. Jason Bateman reminded me of Evan McGregor all the time. It is very similar, so I always wanted Evan in his place. And, of course, the handsome Frank Grillo. Do you remember CSI?
Music. Thank you very much for Sigur Ros. Their music in the real world not many people know (although very popular), and in the film to hear ... only in Icelandic documentary film. And their music is great. Very touching and profound. In general, I was glad and wept, especially at the most denouements of stories.
And, of course, the plot, the script, the director's work.
Henry Alex Rubin. God knows who he is, but his work is amazing. How wonderfully staged. Operator's job is high! Live and active shooting, the so-called “hand”. The correct close-ups.
About the very meaning of the film to argue not much, the vector for reflection is set, do not change throughout the film.
I have the impression that the film tells us stories not about Disconnect, but more about Reconnect. (Disconnect — disconnect, Reconnect — reconnect.) The heroes of the film are experiencing a clear reset of their lives. Everyone has it built individually, but in general – banal, like everyone else. The lives of heroes are routine, full of worries and problems that they invent for themselves. There are no interesting events happening there, because everyone has one grain inside: stability. And everyone considers their stability the success and happiness of their entire existence.
Unfortunately, people are so designed that in order to reconsider their lives you need something amazing. And shocks are not always positive. The price of rebooting each hero is someone else’s life. Anyway, that's how it stands. But fate seems to give them another chance. As if they were good people and needed help.
Why reconnect? Because a competent director's move leaves the heroes without sin. Very good ending, in my opinion.
The film is not difficult to understand. This is another good reason to look at yourself and your life and see if everything is really good. . .
A boring didactic film for middle and high school children
3 stories about the dangers of the Internet
3 times the viewer is very slowly and very carefully chewed old truths "Teenage!" Your parents love you, even if you think they're jerks," "You're responsible for those you tamed" and the beloved American "Let's talk about it.
All the stories end at the same time, all the main characters experience a simultaneous catharsis, pouring tears, are enlightened and understand the meaning of life, how scoundrels they are or, conversely, how they love family, wife, etc. I assume that at this moment the viewer should perform at the same time tears, snot and drool.
It's a long, boring and boring didactic movie. Since most of the characters are teenagers, the film can be described as "for children of middle and high school age", as written in Soviet books. Adults will be bored.
4 out of 10
Only out of respect for the educational component of the film.
One of the great inventions of humanity in the 20th century, the entire world wide web was certainly conceived for the benefit of humanity. But is it the fault of the Internet and its creators that people use this invention for their own selfish purposes? I think that people are to blame for this, because everyone can make their inner world better and cleaner. And we see only the embodiment of their own base instincts and “skeletons in the closet”. This film is designed, most likely, for the younger generation, because modern young people like no other know what the Internet and its properties.
A young naive boy, very lonely as we will learn later, believed that he had a good friend, albeit a virtual one, and after a short correspondence, he completely trusted her.
And the consequences of his stupid and naive act we will learn, but the victims of the Internet do not end, we learn about a young playboy who earns his living in a very peculiar way all the same Internet.
And about other less fortunate people, but the very concept of the film makes you think about yourself, and do you think that the living embodiment of these unfortunate people you see in the reflection of your monitor now?
Or in front of the mirror in the morning? We transfer all our essence and hidden desires, ambitions to the network, because in the network we can be God himself with impunity, not be responsible for our actions and words, thereby causing suffering to others and causing them pain.
It seems to me that no one would want to see in their children the prototype of this young, childishly naive guy.
Love your children, live with them every moment of our short life, because the warmth of mother’s hands and kisses will not replace any virtual pseudo-friends.
To begin with, let me explain the title of the review: in recent years, the number of serious films has been growing, choosing the growth of the integration of human life with information technologies and their importance both for the individual and for society as a whole. These are the “Chat” from the director of “The Call” with its elegant solution in the form of an endless corridor of rooms, and the brilliant British series “Black Mirror”, in the tradition of the best futurologists, posing sharp, and sometimes even cruel questions, as well as the film “Disconnect”, which became the debut of the young director Henry Alex Rubin in the field of feature film. A worthy debut.
Briefly on the plot of the film. Three stories from the lives of ordinary people. Each of them is somehow connected with the network – gambling, trust conversations, trolling, erotic video chats, journalism. You can clearly see the attempt to convey exactly the typical look of the characters, without the tendency to dramatize. This, apparently, is the reason for a rather neutral scenario, the plot seems to keep in suspense, allowing you to survive a rather long time in 115 minutes, but the denouement does not close the topic, but on the contrary, invites everyone to think independently over the assessment of what happened on the screen. Such an open finale looks quite adequate from the point of view of posing acute social issues, the author does not escalate the atmosphere, but simply seeks to convey the reality that he sees.
Imho, if you add a little violence, despite the fact that the characters empathize, it would give a stronger emotional impetus to think seriously on the proposed questions and give answers to them at least to yourself.
The world is changing, and soon everyone will have to answer. Technology is getting deeper into us, and winter is here. Physiology prescribes sleep, but on the contrary, it would be time for us to wake up, not bears to deal with it, in the end.
8 out of 10
You may have noticed a long time ago that the vector of attention and interest of people, especially young people, has mixed into the Internet. They prefer it to real communication, to which they return with increasing reluctance. Virtual space and new technologies have quietly turned into one of the main addictions of our time, increasingly drawing into their networks, and not only the younger generation. Even the middle age and the elderly are increasingly preferring it to television, which remains the technology of the twentieth century, and teenagers would not come out of there at all, if not for the need to eat and sleep. Thus, the Internet “involuntarily” contributes to incommunicability and disunity within families, weaning children from their parents and pulling away the already scarce attention from adults.
The situation is gradually becoming absurd. I know a family where a mother in the kitchen sends her son a text message to his room to go to lunch, because if she goes after him herself and invites him in person, it will have no effect. At least he's reacting to it. It seems that modern people also have very serious problems with self-esteem. And this is not surprising when the mass media daily in large quantities lowers “from above” hard-to-reach role models, and it takes a lot of effort to conform to them. This need to conform is unwittingly frustrating. And since it is difficult to conform in real life, people begin to present themselves in idealized images in the virtual space, where the desired is usually presented as the actual.
Disconnect offers at least three conflict situations that share a common theme: virtual wiring. As they develop, they are tied into one knot of insoluble contradictions. Especially impressive is the story of how two young people trolled their peer, pretending to be a girl in love with him. In the climax phase, the director literally connects all the stories together and through parallel editing tries to enhance the effect of emotional impact on the viewer.
It is significant that all plot lines are resolved with the help of violence, which in a certain way characterizes a society that takes out its aggression on each other, resorting exclusively to assault. I doubt, however, that the director Henry Alex Rubin wanted to point out the primitiveness of his countrymen. Rather, he simply did not find any other expressive way to resolve violent conflicts. But this is also discouraging: regardless of the level of technological development, modern man remains inherently undeveloped. In difficult situations, he does not resort to the help of reason, but realizes his basic instincts, which only indicates how far we have gone from the animal world.
Rubin has been out of touch with big movies for seven years after telling the dramatic story of disabled athletes in his documentary The Killing Game. Usually, such long breaks happen to perfectionist directors who try to take an even greater height in each new project and do not want to compromise. This is a rare occurrence in American cinema, where the Dream Factory is always ready to provide work to talent, provided that they play by its rules. Rubin chose not to follow this path and for five years was engaged in the search for a new idea, the implementation of which forced him to move from non-fiction cinema to fiction.
It is said that the Disconnect script had changed hands for four years, and still could not find the “master” ready to breathe life into it. Perhaps the reason for the "orphanage" was some secondary, namely the conspicuous roll call with the tape "Clash" - the Oscar favorite of 2004. But Rubin, who, by his own admission, spent half his life watching the monitor, grabbed the script with a dead grip and never let go. The film premiered at the Venice Festival in 2012.
A powerful and timely film. This film touches on many of the social issues of our time. The main scourge of our time is leaving online, in social networks. Especially acute problems of this phenomenon are well shown in 3 different stories, which ultimately intertwine with each other. Like 3 different cases, and connects them one – misunderstanding in the family and leaving problems in the computer. In all stories, a complete misunderstanding and unwillingness to talk, to find out what is happening in the family, everyone lives in his own world and everyone talks in stamps, as long as they are left alone, and their real inner world and their problems are trying to realize and solve in the network. Only serious problems in the family make you wake up and finally try to understand what your relatives feel, try to finally talk heart to heart, to become alive again. Often in family, in the company of friends, everyone sits on social networks, each in his own corner, instead of just talking here and now to understand each other better. Also, special attention is focused on the relationship between fathers and children, about teenage loneliness, which is often hidden either in music or in thoughtless and often harmless leprosy, which sometimes lead to terrible consequences, and some even fall into bad communities, which completely leave no chance to become a decent person.
In summary: very strong, modern, showing the difficult problems of our society, forcing us to think, to draw at least some conclusions and calling for a deeper and more serious look at the diseases of our time. It is necessary to watch.
Network. People who are self-contained, forget about the real world, keep secrets thanks to the network, and hunters, very cleverly wielding this network. The word "network" and correctly can be understood in different ways, and it is not only a set of many connections. This is a weapon that can very cleverly and cunningly capture a person. A storehouse of information that can connect two people in different parts of the world. But also able to ruin the fate of loved ones living in the same house, and perhaps even sleeping in the same bed.
The downside of progress, the mistakes people make when they forget online, and the conclusions they draw from it, is what this film shows. Three storylines, several heroes who suffered from misunderstanding. People who want to talk to them. The network teaches, without knowing it, teaches people from their own mistakes, despite the fact that no one will show us how much the lessons that life gave the heroes will affect them in the future.
But the tragic events themselves will be shown to us, and people who are perplexed realize that they made a mistake. Not immediately aware of the cost of mistakes. Two fathers with imperfect sons, blaming anyone but themselves first. Former Marine turned cog going through paperwork. A young man who grew up on the street. Will they give up their principles, will they restrain themselves? Before the viewer take and put several people, each of whom looked his own vices in the face, realized his mistakes - and what could be better than to learn the lesson given by life? The main thing is that the price by that time has not reached a critical level.
The tapping of the fingers on the keyboard is familiar to everyone and has already become a familiar rhythm of our day. Don’t you think the internet has lured you into its networks? Nope? What are you doing right now?
Yes, no one disputes the good and affordable that our computer age brought with it, but the negative consequences are also on the face. Now more and more often, the secret is trusted by social networks, rather than close and real people, all memories and thoughts also increasingly migrate to our computers, and evenings with family, friends or loved ones turn into spending time on the usual Internet. We dive into another world, falling out of it, and understanding between people becomes more difficult.
It is clear that no one will abandon the innovations of technology and Internet resources at once, but it is worth thinking about how this affects our lives. Look out the window or go on a trip instead of viewing beautiful, but strange pictures, meet with friends in reality, instead of writing them another message “how are you?”, smile at your loved one, rather than sending a smiley face. Remember that the Internet reality is an illusion, nothing more, and beyond it there is a huge, real world, which also has a lot of interesting things.
A good movie that makes you think and act.
We often share our deepest secrets with those we don’t really know and trust what we won’t tell our closest and dearest. We seek advice and give it to those who need it. We read about the fate of people who have fallen into unpleasant situations and assure ourselves that this will never happen to us. But we forget the most important thing that around us are the same living people who also expect help and advice from us. Who can help at any moment without asking for anything in return. These are our relatives, parents and children, husbands and wives, friends. Where are we going and where are we looking for advisors?
The film is based on three stories of different people.
A full-fledged family in which the youngest does not find in common with his relatives should look for a soul of his own & #39; in one that only understood and praised him. A young couple, having lost a child, falls apart due to the fact that the husband and wife do not have common contacts with each other and each finds solace. A young man earning illegally finds a straw that is ready to help, just to make material for the magazine.
Each of the heroes hopes for help and seeks it where it was not and could not be. Heroes disconnect from the inner world in which they inhabit and live and include another - virtual.
They used to say, “Do not have a hundred rubles, but have a hundred friends.” Today we can say: do not have a hundred virtual, but have one real.
Discussions of personal problems, problems in school, at work were solved in the circle of loved ones, today it is solved online with the help of voting, varnishes or pluses.
We lose what is in each of us – our love and attention to the people around us. We turn those feelings off. We separate ourselves from those we love, value, respect. We're losing touch.
'I don't care about the money, not the house, just take me home...' 'Absolutely everything. Everything I love is in this room right now. ..' Heroes provide answers where we should look for all our connections. Treat your friends and don’t lose them.
There is no main character, everyone occupies an integral part of the film. These are three stories about different people, but with one problem, people who are closest to each other, for some reason, are very far from each other.
I’m really sure that what happens to the characters happens in real life, a teenage boy without friends, receiving everyday mockery from peers, a young couple who lost their baby and with him warmth in relationships, a single guy engaged in virtual sex for money. Everything is real and very close to anyone. Someone will find a friend there, and someone will find himself.
The brightest impression from the climax scene, which the director quite correctly very clearly highlighted, wentosebumps ran through her body, but after it everything falls into place.
The secret of success is chosen for the text theme about virtual communication and social networks, an important component of the modern world, without which it is difficult to imagine your life.
The film makes you think about your "connections."
The main goal to convey to people the idea - to be alone is not so good, you need to "have a connection."
This is one of the best films I have seen recently. The script, the actors and the direction are excellent. Dramatic tension, character development, conflict, unexpected turns - all this is here.
It’s a thrilling film that tries to convey profound things about relationships in today’s computerized world. If you want a movie with superheroes, spies, chases and shootouts, this is not the place for you. This is a movie for adults.
Confidentiality, theft, fraud, exploitation, intimidation, the easy availability of porn, and the impact on children of adult material all put our minds and feelings at risk. This movie can say important and relevant things about our virtual life. Our society should think about where we will go with all these “modern” problems.
Things are not always what they seem. After all, people are the same as they have always been. There is little condemnation in this film, but the idea is clear: contact, but not in this way.
It was a pleasure to see a film openly addressing some of these issues. And to make it so clear!
The age of information, of computers, of the Internet, of high technology, which in the last twenty to thirty years has literally taken over the world. Almost every house now has a mobile phone, computer, laptop. Virtuality, which has become part of reality, is inseparable from modern man. The network that enveloped the world expanded it and at the same time became a trap - a drama of modern society that seemed not so long ago fiction.
"Disconnect" is a concept familiar around the world without translation, meaning disconnection from the network, as well as the title of this film, telling three different stories happening at the same time and related to the Internet, but all three stories are tragic and the tragedy is not that they suddenly disconnected the connection. As an analogy, the film "Surrogates", its idea is similar to this picture, the only difference is that it shows one of the vicious options for the development of our modern technologies and changing the lives of people associated with them. The essence of both films is: what lies behind the possibilities of high technology – more good or more evil? Only in this film, the answer to this question is not given - it is provided to the viewer himself, he is only given the necessary information. The positive aspects are well known to everyone – a huge amount of information in quick access, a significant simplification of certain actions performed by a person daily in the domestic sphere or at work, an unlimited number of people for communication and much more. However, some things conceal a terrible danger: the network provides opportunities that are very difficult to implement in the real world, and sometimes even impossible.
The first story of an orphan working in an online brothel. Her question is whether it is criminal to do things online that are forbidden in the real world. The second is about a schoolboy who, as a result of a prank by his classmates on a social network, finds himself in a coma after a suicide attempt. Is the person at the other end of the line who he says he is? The third is about a couple who lost their son and suffered from an Internet fraudster. Is it possible that you are not really talking to your friend, but to a fraudster? That's what this film shows, that's what his story is about. Of course, the film cannot describe all possible cases, otherwise it would take much more screen time, the viewer can think about them himself, after watching.
The film cannot be called brilliant or innovative, because it is neither one nor the other (many people know about the possibilities described in it, only no one believes that this can happen to everyone), its characteristic is seriousness, clumsiness, realism, emotionality, quality, competent construction and an impeccable end.
Times change. The ways of life that each of us is trying to adapt to are also changing. Whether it is the communication of people verbally face to face, or the method of writing letters, as was the case in previous centuries. What promises not only the advent, but also the active dominance of the age of “modern technologies and wireless communication”? ? It is on this question decided to think about the director of the film Henry Alex Rubin. To be honest, despite the intriguing plot and impressive cast, initially the film did not inspire any confidence in me. Already watching the tape, I willingly singled out this picture as one of the main events for me personally over the past year and perhaps one of the most socially profound films in my memory.
Of course, from the very first frames of the tape, it is striking how strong and obvious emotions are impregnated with the film. Usually, most modern tapes show only a picture and nothing more. This film is devoid of any unnecessary scenes. Moreover, each of the scenes literally reflects the entire emotional intensity of each scene and the tape itself. Being executed in rather sad, depressing, gray and perhaps even dreary tones, the film seems to reflect the mood of most of modern society. Where not only loneliness, but also the identity of each person is fully felt, which has completely taught a person to actively communicate with others, and not to live exclusively their lives and worries. The creators of the film do not try to look at life with the usual gaze of Hollywood gloss through pink glasses.
The film turned out to be highly social and quite cruel. Cruel by how real and torn from real life this film seems. Being a really talented documentary filmmaker and nominated even for an Academy Award, the director of the film Henry Alex Rubin creates almost a documentary image of what is happening on the screen, but at the same time, emphasizing the style of an absolute and talented artist. In many ways, delivering a really beautiful visual filling, saturating it with perfect music and creating the integrity of not only an individual scene, but also the entire tape.
At a time when most of the tape is created solely for the commercial enrichment of its creators and for the continuation of perhaps even worn-out franchises, it has become extremely rare to see a truly intelligent and socially significant story on the screen. Including when it is not just a look into modern society with numerous philosophical reflections, but also a reflection of it as it really is. In this regard, this film really impressed and amazed me. Because what we see on the screen is not a prediction of the possible future of “modern technology, social networks and the Internet,” but rather the relatively terrible picture that is already being observed in life. When people stopped communicating with each other. Maybe because of your job and your problems.
The film reflects on the screen “the world of the Internet” precisely the opportunity to communicate with people with each other, but at the same time, reflecting the huge gap that is observed despite this between two virtual interlocutors. This film is about loneliness, which afflicts most of modern society like an epidemic. At the same time, the creators on the screen demonstrate a real complex set of different stories with individual morals, which are obviously performed in the traditions of the Oscar-winning “Clash” directed by Paul Haggis. Whether it’s the story of a father who, aware of the lack of communication with his child, blames himself for his suicide attempt, or the story of a married couple who completely ceased to communicate with each other after the tragic death of their child.
This film is not just about loneliness per se, but the loneliness we condemn ourselves to. Just not appreciating or communicating with those around us. Stories really make a strong impression. Since this is not just a fiction of the creators of the film, but really happening stories that you can see if not in the reflection of your life, then the lives of others for sure. The question is, what are we going to do about it? The creators of the tape demonstrate the exit in the final, but also stop there. Without imposing their opinion on the audience and leaving the right to choose. A choice that creates responsibility for your own life. It is easier to blame others than yourself.
Perhaps the cast is not as stellar as in “Clash”, but still striking and impressive. Unexpectedly moving away from comedy roles, Jason Bateman played perhaps the best and most serious role in his career for the first time. In his reflection we see the model of the father of the modern world. When the realization of the need to provide for the family materially, many forget that this role of the father does not end. I was similarly impressed by Frank Grillo, who for the first time gave me a really strong game.
Andrea Riseborough also made a huge impression on me, which became a real discovery for me in this picture. The image of a person who unknowingly uses people and abandons, suited her perfectly and fully identified with a considerable number of people in society. And, visually, Andrea looked incredibly attractive. Which also drew attention around her character. Paula Patton and Alexander Skarsgård just brilliantly played a couple heartbroken. Both actors have a very deep and strong character. Especially Skarsgård, which has definitely grown in my eyes even higher. As well as Max Tyriot, who once again cemented the image of one of the most underrated young actors of our time.
Some people make music, others make art. Once such a phrase stood out brilliant Ennico Mariconne and we can safely say that this music perfectly applies to the work of the composer Max Richter. Richter always gives out not so much insanely beautiful, touching, sad and dramatic rich music. How many endow their music with these emotions, which make any film in the work of Richter better than it is. Here and here music becomes a melodic interpretation of the loneliness that has become the main theme of this tape.
10 out of 10
There is no connection - this is a rare example of a socially acute and socially significant tape that presents a somewhat forward-looking look at the loneliness and cruelty of modernity. The film is strong in all respects and definitely makes you think. Which is very, very valuable.
Once again, choosing what to see tonight, I came across this picture. The film is based on one topical and global issue of our time that affects everyone. So, camera, engine!
"No Connection" is a modern film that tells us about such a very familiar concept... the World Wide Web, or simply, the Internet. This is where you are right now, and you are probably reading this. Maybe you or you, it's not as important as it is in life, it's about freedom, it's about freedom, it's about virtuality. Of course, thinking people will understand that the uncultured treatment of people in the virtual world is just a trifle. And they'll be right! Why? I'll answer you. First, you can lose everything here! Money, fame, life... Only that will be real when you stop looking at the monitor and live out there. Secondly, today there is such an addiction that you sometimes do not notice or do not want to notice. Today’s new generation, who have known the Internet since childhood, is smarter than us. Is it just the right place? Many have replaced real communication with social networks, various forums, chats. People! It shouldn't be like that!
All these problems, we can see in this picture. Here are a couple of stories, different families, whose lives were influenced by virtuality. Someone has no plans for the future, someone loses all their money, and someone wants to die. And these are just a few examples. Initially, the purpose of the latest technology was different. The main thing was to unite people, to help each other. But reality dictates other rules.
The film was made qualitatively. The main characters play very realistically. Bravo!
In the end, a very good film came out, showing our days, reality. Makes you think, and maybe reconsider your life. I recommend everyone to see this thing.