Life 2.0
Virtual World, New Reality
Virtual World, New Reality
Documentary
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2010
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This feature-length documentary follows a group of people whose lives are dramatically transformed by a virtual world -- reshaping relationships, identities, and ultimately the very notion of reality.
Director:
Similar
Details
Rated:
Not Rated
Runtime:
100 min
Release date:
22 Jan 2010
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
1 win total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
"Life 2.0" would have been more interesting and original if it, like its subjects, had dwelled more in the virtual world, and if it had told us more about that world's mechanics and folkways.
– Mike Hale,
New York Times,
19 May 2011
fresh:
At once a disturbing vision of escape, a cautious portrait of liberation, and an exploration of authenticity and artificiality, it's a documentary that trades not in absolutes but unsettling ambiguity.
– Nick Schager,
Village Voice,
17 May 2011
fresh:
[Spingarn-Koff] films computer screens with no borders, as if putting viewers into the graphic creations, while he listens to his obsessives describe the function and emotional power of their created personae.
– Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
16 May 2011
fresh:
A disturbing but nonjudgmental study of online addiction and the lure of manufactured identities.
– Justin Chang,
Variety,
6 Jul 2010
fresh:
An honest, fair and quite voyeuristic look into avatars and the real-life humans who control them in Second Life.
– Peter Hartlaub,
San Francisco Chronicle,
6 Jul 2010