A sharp documentary looks at the intensity of smartphone addiction, and how it was all engineered. By Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic There’s a word that keeps popping up in “Screened Out,” Jon Hyatt’s must-see documentary about screen addiction in the age of mobile technology.
The word is dopamine. That’s the neurotransmitter that sends signals to other cells, along pathways linked to pleasure and reward-motivated behavior.
The idea that smartphones trigger our pleasure centers isn’t news, but “Screened Out” is all about the ways that the devices have been designed to do that very thing.
That’s why we’re addicted to them. That’s why they’re rewiring our brains. Since this is a review of a documentary about the insidious effects of
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