Caught in the Web

Name: Caught in the Web
Genre: Drama
Released: November 27, 2013
Duration: 117 min
Rating: 37

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levelFILM | Release Date: November 27, 2013 | Not Rated

Summary: The story begins on a bus, when white-collar worker Ye refuses to give up her seat to a senior citizen. Her defiance is videotaped by a journalist intern and played during a news show. The video sparks intense debate on and off the Internet. Some Internet users search for Ye's personal information and post it all online. The issue soonThe story begins on a bus, when white-collar worker Ye refuses to give up her seat to a senior citizen. Her defiance is videotaped by a journalist intern and played during a news show. The video sparks intense debate on and off the Internet. Some Internet users search for Ye's personal information and post it all online. The issue soon brings tremendous changes to the families of both the journalist intern and Ye's boss.… Expand

Director: Kaige Chen

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 117 min

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Deborah Young

Dec 5, 2013

In this fast-moving, densely plotted black dramedy, a faux scandal raised by an ambitious web TV editor comes close to destroying a number of lives, offering a masterful panorama on urban, middle class China. Read full review

The Playlist Gabe Toro

Dec 9, 2013

Caught In The Web grows slack as its premise evolves. Read full review

Mick LaSalle

Jan 4, 2014

Caught in the Web is of little interest as entertainment, and if it were set in an unimportant or overly familiar country, it would be entirely forgettable. Read full review

Nathan Rabin

Nov 26, 2013

The screenplay relies far too heavily on coincidences, misunderstandings, and characters purposefully not saying things for reasons rooted in plot contrivances rather than clear motivation. Read full review

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

Dec 11, 2013

Since making an ill-fated attempt at Hollywood with 2002’s "Killing Me Softly," Chen Kaige has slipped further and further out of relevance. Now even his elegant sense of style — the one thing keeping later efforts like "Forever Enthralled" afloat — seems to be slipping away. Case in point: Chen’s new film, Caught In The Web. Read full review

Inkoo Kang

Dec 10, 2013

Chen's grand opus about the perils of the Internet already feels obsolete. Read full review

Nick Schager

Nov 26, 2013

Amid much overacting, Kaige addresses the subjectivity and unreliability of images through this-isn't-what-it-looks-like scenarios that would make Jack Tripper groan. Read full review

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