Very disappointing...

Touches You

Memorable, crazy movie

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

This movie approaches a multitude of situations any of us could encounter in today's world. We often think tragedy only strikes others, so it is definitely food for thought.Disconnect addresses situations we are all aware of but probably don't pay much attention to, as they are outside our little bubble. The movie confronts you with those awful situations and asks you what you would do in those characters' situation.The directing was very good. I can tell there was a lot of thought put into the set according to each particular characters' situations and even filming each scene.Pretty much the only downsides I found were the couple dealing with the loss of their son – they felt like strangers well before that event, it's like the husband's military past did not even happen up to that point, for example -, and the FBI being so inefficient felt like a plot device to get things to where they needed to be for dramatic potential. Also, I had trouble dealing with the slow pace.It makes sense because there are several different stories happening at the same time and due to the reality of the situations. There are no car chases or big explosions here, this is real life.The stories reach their climax in slow motion scenes but I just could not feel the impact as expected, for some reason. I guess I found the build up to some of them either too slow or that it did not have enough background/development or I just wanted more.Still, Disconnect is a very heartbreaking, real movie. The ending was just as realistic and I believe it is something everyone should watch, from as young as teenagers.

One can already tell two minutes into it that the movie is going to demand a lot of patience. Everything about those two minutes as the rest of the film, screams 'fabricated' in the way scenes are framed, the shooting is in-the-face wobbly, the casting involved only too good-looking actors and a script forcing the cast to utter lines that no one in real life would even imagine uttering. No attempt at translation from storyboard to something believable was ever made..The film is frustratingly annoying in that no one in the movie behaves like any real person would, exactly like in Crash. It's a movie made for people who live in some kind of western comfort bubble who haven't got a clue about real life and how things actually play out in a reality that flies for the other 95%.The film is not worth a review, it should simply not be in a top 1000 on IMDb so one would skip it naturally..1/1

Last Friday night I sat in the couch with the purpose to watch a movie like I use to. I had neither big nor a new film to watch so I just sticked to my movie list and end up watching this one. I can say that this is one of the most deep and thoughtful films I have ever seen. It has no astonishing cinematographic quality but the intension and depth demonstrated overtake all the bad things about it. It talks about one of the most important and at the same time worrying topics our society faces nowadays - social media. It raises the question: Does it really worth it? All the time we spent facing the screens? All those chats we have that just happen virtually? The importance of having 10 less followers in Instagram than your friend? Is it or not wasting time? The film really gets you thinking about this and from my point of view this is all that matters it means that the message passed. To finish, I really recommend those who haven't seen this movie yet to watch it. You won't get disappointed.

I was longing to watch this movie for a really long time, but usually I'm not in mood for dramas, however, this was totally worth of the time. The movie offers a great pack of actors, great acting as well, and presents actions that happens with people nowadays, starting from teenage children up to fully grown up men, that struggle with all kinds of stuff. The movie itself offers multiple story lines, and are somewhat linked to each other, in a really great way, in my opinion that is. Psychologically well built, the main line is about cyberbullying, not only about the victim, but about the aggressor as well, gets us pretty well into his perspective, and what has driven this person to harm other people. I believe this movie is somewhat of a reminder for parents out there, about how not to treat their children.