Teenagers meet in chat rooms, and on many occasions celebrations take place in the main chat room named "Chelsea teens!". The chatroom is portrayed on screen as a real-life room where people talk as a regular chat room on a computer screen. After a paedophile posing as a girl enters the chat room, they install a password to fully secure the site. The main character's bad behaviour quickly produces problems with parents that try to take his computer and mobile phone away. Things get even more complicated with crime, police, guns and a suicide attempt.
Short storyline
Chatroom focuses on a group of teenagers who encourage each other’s destructive behaviour via an internet chatroom. The internet chatroom in question is presented as both an actual chatroom on a computer and a real life room where people visit, this helps to establish the connections between each and every one of the characters and the idea of psychological manipulation is easily explored.
The manipulation runs deep in Chatroom, the idea that it is so easy for people to bully one another on the internet is another observant point to make, the idea that there are some people who purposefully seek out other more weaker people and psychologically twist them to their ideals and in some cases drive them to suicide has quite real and frightening possibilities. Maybe it’s even trying to reinforce the message, trust no-one?
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Runtime: 97 min
Release Date: 11 August 2010 (France)
Country: UK