Chatroom
| By Hideo Nakata | |
| With Aaron Johnson, Imogen Poots, Matthew Beard | |
 | British film directed by Hideo Nakata starring Aaron Johnson, Imogen Poots, Mathew Beard. Type :Thriller. Length : 01h27min. Not allowed under 12 years old. William, 17, is a solitary figure who spends most of his time on the Internet. He opens up a discussion forum for teenagers in his town and is joined by four troubled adolescents. As William manipulates the others into sharing their deepest secrets and feelings and to take some action in their lives, it gradually becomes apparent that William’s sociopathic tendencies are the result of a very unhappy home. The script attempts to explore the sinister side of social networking by using as its basis the ever-increasing volumes of news stories about people who have committed suicide after being cyber-bullied. The most interesting element of this film is the production design – the film unfolds the story in two worlds: a stage-set virtual realm which looks like a shabby hotel that’s brightly-coloured and intense where the characters meet when they’re online, and a “real” world using London as the locale. (Certificate 12A) |