jamesrdearing

Let me start by giving you some advice: Watch this at home, not in a theater. I was very glad I did because there were several points in the movie where my family wanted to pause it and talk about some idea or concept. If you do see it in a theater, it might be a good idea to bring a pen and paper so that you can jot down your thoughts.

Like most good documentaries, this one makes you want to keep discussing political issues after the movie ends. It presented these issues – net neutrality, common carrier laws, government regulation vs. free enterprise – in a way that makes you want to research them later. It leaves you wanting more, and that is a good thing.

The movie did seem a little bit short to me, at 1 hour 17 minutes, but it packs in a lot of information without ever getting boring. Overall a wonderful effort, definitely worth seeing if you care at all about freedom and the Internet.

Thsi has to be one of the best movies I've seen in a while. Be warned, though - those of you used to Hollywood spoon-feeding you stories, incapable of chewing and swallowing them yourself, won't like this. There's a gray organ inside your head which apparently many movie viewers have forgotten how to use, assuming they ever knew in the first place. You have to use it to enjoy this movie. I think that's the reason that movies like this are not made by studios - they know that if you actually start using your brains, you'll get tired of the mass-produced you've-seen-one-you've-seen-them-all movies that they depend on selling and re-selling and even in some cases re-re-selling. Congrats and thanks to Warner Brothers for agreeing to take a risk and sell a good movie.

This is one of the 2 movies I can think of that really show how good a movie can be, the other being Spirited Away.