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A look at the evolving nature of sex and dating in the digital age that offers candid insights from twentysomethings and experts in the field.
Swiped: Hooking Up in the Digital Age
2018 Directed by Nancy Jo Sales
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Graydon Carter Lisa Heller Jacqueline Glover Carly Hugo Matthew Parker Annabelle Dunne Nancy Jo Sales
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I considered turning off this documentary as soon as an Onision video was pulled up. I persevered.
The documentary is as vapid and superficial as the subjects it presents, going from pointless, masturbatory profiles of boring Tinder users with no real stories to share, to brief clips of sociologists and other academics, which are insightful but rarely streamlined into a coherent narrative. There is often a jarring contrast between glorifying apps like Tinder and condemning them, and the film never really reaches a thesis. The cinematography is attractive, and it seems like the only thing that HBO wanted it for other than the opportunist subject matter.
Basically the film equivalent of a dating app profile. -
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First of all, hats off the researcher who did her interviews while breastfeeding...LOL it's cool, it just makes me giggle because I am a child. Like, was she all set up, mic'd and lit and her baby started crying to be fed, and the directors "Hey, let's just do the interview anyways!" and they're were like cool, and started filming. Or was it like "Don't film me UNTIL I'm ready to breastfeed, ok," and the director was like "aw hell yeah" ??
Anyways interesting doc, but I feel like it was stuff I already knew! Everything is perfectly designed to make you addicted and for people to make money, I know I know...Feels like the "regular" people they interviewed in…
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there's nothing new here, really. everyone is awful. dating apps are one of the catalysts of the decline of monogamy, etc etc.
all of the people are BORING and it's giving me traumatic flashbacks to the worst dates i've had.
idk but i'd kind of like to be a dating historian. seems like a cool gig.
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god it’s like looking in a mirror. that first date they showed made me wanna throw up.
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This sucks and gives no insights into anything other than the filmmakers' complete disinterest in the subject matter.
They have these experts dunking some completely inane analysis on why people that live in a village in the 50's meet fewer strangers than people with iPhones do. The most shallow documentary I've ever seen.
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So this documentary was intriguing to me because I met my current girlfriend of 4 plus years on Tinder, which is normally a "hookup" site but for me, I found true love. This looks at how young Americans all over the US use the app Tinder and that is the app that is the primary focus of the first half although in the second half, they briefly get into Bumble which is an app where a female has to message first, the man cannot do so. They also talk about how important Grindr was to the LGBTQ community as well especially in areas where it's hard for them to date. The owner and creator of Tinder is also interviewed throughout…