Jason Reitman’s new film, Men Women & Children, may one of the most important and polarizing pictures of the mobile tech generation. Through various characters that both embrace, loathe and fear the means of online interaction, the films seems to convey a bitter disconnect that has changed the landscape of human relationships. After witnessing a slew of films that portray the subject as either a ridiculous horror tale (The Net) or an over-dramatized PSA (Cyberbu//y), this seems to be the first film that gets not only the technological truths but the ethics of the new era of technology. Check out the trailer and the press release blow:
MEN, WOMEN & CHILDREN follows the story of a group of high school teenagers and their parents as they attempt to navigate the many ways the internet has changed their relationships, their communication, their self-image, and their love lives. The film attempts to stare down social issues such as video game culture, anorexia, infidelity, fame hunting, and the proliferation of illicit material on the internet. As each character and each relationship is tested, we are shown the variety of roads people choose – some tragic, some hopeful – as it becomes clear that no one is immune to this enormous social change that has come through our phones, our tablets, and our computers.
