Disconnect

GREAT MOVIES: Henry Alex Rubin's Disconnect (US, 2012) - A conventional, multilinear ‘Big Emotional Journey’ is lifted by a finely-honed script and some solid performances in the first dramatic feature by Henry-Alex Rubin, director of the well-received 2005 documentary Murderball. Riffing on the theme of loneliness and the difficulties of interpersonal communication in an increasingly connected world, Rubin’s film traces a brace of stories from contemporary America’s wired society, from online sex chatrooms to Facebook pranks, in order to bring out what in the end is a pretty clichéd point about the real human connections that get lost in cyberspace, and the way being permanently online can turn people offline emotionally. 2012TOR, 2012VENoc. RATING: 4.