Released on the 9th of September, The Network Dilemma (original title The Social Dilemma) quickly became the most watched content on the platform in several countries, entering the TOP 10 of countries such as Brazil, USA, Netherlands and Japan. The film is directed by documentary filmmaker Jeff Orlowski, who is known for his work on documentaries on the environment (or rather, on the irreversible consequences of human action on the environment). 733i66
In Search of Corals 2017, talks about the disastrous “whitening” of corals around the world — a phenomenon in which corals lose their color and consequently their life. Already Chasing Ice 2012, focuses on the impact of global warming on the arctic circle. In Chasing Ice, which was even nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary, the documentary filmmaker also worked as an underwater cameraman in the freezing arctic temperatures.
Netflix has made available In Search of Corals in full on their YouTube channel. And check out the trailer below. Chasing Ice:
when producing The Network Dilemma, the director brings the same sense of urgency and alarm as his previous works, and now focuses on the problematic age of social media. The aim of the documentary is to show the negative impact on the physical and mental health of s and the rapid spread of fake news, with catastrophic effects on the world political scenario. See the trailer below.
One of the key interviewees in the documentary is Tristan harris, a designer who worked for Google, and realized that situations such as breaches of s' privacy and incitements to addiction were not side effects, but deliberate and in-house strategies.
Tristan Harris, as well as other industry names interviewed in The Network Dilemma, categorically state that platforms manipulate behavior for their own benefit, and keep s engaged through an “eternal” feed. Experts claim that we have already reached the point where networks not only predict but also influence everything from basic purchasing decisions to choosing a candidate in elections.
Upon realizing that the Google pushed the boundaries of ethics, Tristan Harris resigned from the tech giant and created an initiative called “Center for Humane Technology” (“Center for Humanized Technology” in free translation) with the aim of creating a collective conscience and critical thinking, so that s understand the manipulation they suffer from big names in the industry like Google, Facebook, Twitter and others.
The documentary is also very clever in not only relying on interviews and facts, but creating a fictional narrative (ie, dramatized scenes with actors) that shows the effects of social media on a middle-class American family. The main focus of these scenes are two characters who are the biggest s — and dependent on the networks: a pre-teen, clearly with self-esteem issues, and, a young man who easily believes in a radical on YouTube.
Of course, the examples are extreme, but they serve perfectly to illustrate the impact on this profile — and I think it was a very successful choice for the documentary filmmaker.
I'm not saying that the content of this documentary should be absorbed blindly, but I believe it is an excellent opportunity to watch for families that have belonging to these “risk groups” — I will at least adopt this alarmist semantics, as there is no way to ignore it. there.
The Network Dilemma is available on Netflix, and you should definitely watch it and discuss it with your friends and family. If you haven't watched it, check it out and come back here in the comments of showmetech to say what you think!
And don't forget to also check out the titles launched by Netflix in october!
