That’s completely tangential to your point, but what you said kind of made me think about this film a little more.

Later on in the film, Allis is using audio recordings as sort of a diary and there’s definitely the sense that she plans on leaving them behind for posterity, so there is a small element of how far we can trust her as a narrator, but that’s another story best left for when people see the film.

Sartre, this definitely hits harder than fiction which as you note can be good or bad depending on your mood.

I’m hesitant to talk too much about it because I don’t want to spoil anything, but this isn’t a movie that leaves you feeling devastated. Bad things happen and things don’t turn out great for every member of the family, but it’s ended in a way that we’re allowed a little bit of hope.

Anyway, sartre, you’re probably right. Our need to connect probably trumps how boring and repetitive the vast majority of those connections actually are.

There was a doc that begged a similar question as that that played at Sundance this year, can’t recall its name.

As for your question -> I doubt that something so many have taken up for so long now, in a variety of ways and to various degrees, will lose momentum. I suspect we’ll just get more discerning.

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This does look interesting but I wonder if this isn’t developing into a new sub-genre of documentaries: the well-documented but tragic life.

After recent examples like Tarnation and Dear Zachary, this one feels like a growing trend in documentaries. The curious thing is that whether it’s a trend or just a coincidence, our lives are becoming so increasingly public and well-documented online that these kinds of documentaries will eventually be something a piece of software could logically piece together. With all the twittering, blogging, facebooking, myspacing, flickring, and youtubing of our myriad lives, it’s really not that inconceivable.

So I have to wonder, in a world of people broadcasting themselves 24-7 to anyone who will listen, will we eventually get tired of it?

I know that sounds like shameless self promotion or something, but if you want to see this movie online for free via Gigantic releasing let me know, I have these passes that are just going to get wasted otherwise.