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Disconnect (2012) Film Review (No Spoilers!)

"Disconnect" is a techno-thriller directed by Henry Alex Rubin starring Jason Bateman,    Alexander SkarsgĂ„rd, Hope Davis, Paula Patton,  Frank Grillo ,  Andrea Riseborough ,   Michael Nyqvist ,  Max Thieriot and Marc Jacobs (yes, Marc Jacobs as in the fashion designer). It's packed with a lot of drama, putting social media in the foreground and the problems that it can/has caused nowadays. The internet can connect - but sadly it can also disconnect, as we get to see in this drama.  I'm not going to talk all professional with you, whoever you may be, because this film was just so powerful. I saw it maybe a month  ago and I can't stop thinking about it. It makes me question everything I put on the internet, it makes me even a little paranoid when I look at my laptop (could someone be watching?), it makes me be more careful and I find myself looking at technology with a new distrust. It is thrilling, intense and so real. So, if you haven't already no