The DVD Wrapup: Unfriended, Water Diviner, Reckless, Life on the Reef, Lost ... - Movie City News
Facebook has become such an unavoidable force in our culture that the mere threat of being “unfriended” by a fellow user now carries the same stigma as a church member being shunned for breaking a commandment. With that in mind, it’s worth knowing that Levan Gabriadze’s clever thriller, Unfriended , originally was titled “Cybernatural,” which isn’t nearly as to-the-point. Facebook, Twitter and Instagram represent different things to different people, especially teens trying to out-hip their computer-savvy parents. And, as we’ve learned to our collective shame, with bullying comes the occasional suicide. If the chatroom and webcam users in Unfriended belong to a more generic Internet community than Facebook, there are more similarities here than differences. In it, a typical group of young computer-literate pals is interacting in a chatroom, when their conversation is interrupted by the supernatural presence of Laura Barns (Heather Sossaman), who committed suicide after being cyber-bullied. But Unfriended isn’t for the casual users of the Internet. The more experience one has in the world of cyber-communication, the scarier. Source: moviecitynews.com
