Status: Released
Runtime: 79
Release Date: 20/01/2014
Origin Language: en
Origin Country: US - IL - CN
Languages: MandarinEnglish
Production: Impact PartnersNew Israeli Foundation for Cinema and TelevisionkNow ProductionsWarrior PoetsChicken & Egg PicturesTribeca Film InstituteMedalia Productions
Countries: ChinaIsraelUnited States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0 (0)
China is the first country in the world to classify Internet addiction as a clinical disorder. Caught in the Net features a Beijing treatment center where Chinese teenagers are being "deprogrammed," and follows the story of three boys from the day they arrive at the center, to their three-month treatment period, and their long awaited return home. The film provides a microcosm of modern Chinese life and investigates one of the symptoms of the Internet age. It examines inter-generational pressures and the disregard of the human rights of minors who get caught in the net.