Social_Animals

If your older and want to see what youngster are so intrigued about with their phones then watch this film. It's a view from the Instagram side of social media. The highs can be amazing the lows can be devasting. An in site of a changing world due to technology. Good or Bad it's here.

As a teenager this film helped me to understand the consequences and benefits of instagram without giving a strong view of its own, the film allows you to think on it and raise a question. Social animals shows the different circumstances and examples of failure and success on social media.

Hoping for more work from this director

I was all like 'this is a good, like, idea' and so I was like 'I should watch this' and so, like, I said to my wife, like, let's watch it' and she's all like 'yeah, let's like watch it' and I was all like 'ok, cool-cool' and so like, then we like, started, like, watching it and, like, the subject matter was all like, interesting, but like, there was, like, something about it that like, made me want to like, turn it off because, like, it just, like annoyed me. Like, something was just, like, grating on me but like, I couldn't, like, put my finger on it. If listening to that doesn't annoy you - but might like... sorry: enjoy this movie. I couldn't get past the instagram star/future homeless girl. Yeah, she's a kid but it's just painful.

Social Animals was well-received at its world premiere at Austin's SXSW Film Festival. It is best described as a digital coming of age story that shows the positives and the pitfalls of the social media era. It showcases three teenagers and their experiences with Instagram. It also shows that while there is much that can be achieved positively (particularly in the experience of Humza Deas who uses Instagram as a platform to develop and showcase his amazing photography), butt there are also horrific downsides. The platform magnifies all of the worst pathologies of millennial culture including sexting, horrific cyberbullying, stalking, slut-shaming and so much else. All of the ugliest aspects of the playground are played out writ large on the social media stage. The director has done a thoughtful job of presenting the medium fairly. The film is entertaining, well-edited, and provocative. Frankly, I agree with the director (in his comments at the screening), if I had teenagers I wouldn't let my kids use this type of social media platform.

This is a good documentary 👌 we need to see more of this, from a socially psychologically point of view.