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
Life 2.0
Virtual World, New Reality
2010 · 1h 40m · Not Rated
Documentary
Directed by
Jason Spingarn-Koff
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Life 2.0
Overview
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 and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
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89%
Tomatometer
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
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
Fresh
A disturbing but nonjudgmental study of online addiction and the lure of manufactured identities.
Justin Chang, Variety
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
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