CANNES, France (Reuters) - Who said the Web was worldwide? Not director Atom Egoyan, whose new film "Adoration" explores just how confining cyberspace can be when a teenager confronts a culture clash that has damaged him and his family.
"Adoration" premiered on Thursday at the Cannes film festival, and following a press screening, Egoyan challenged the notion that the World Wide Web has fostered a global community.
"That's the cliche of the Internet, but the reality is that it exists in small interest groups," Egoyan told reporters.
In "Adoration," the key character is a Toronto teenager named Simon who confesses to a small Web chat room containing only his friends that his Middle-Eastern father planted a bomb in the suitcase of his Canadian mother, who was pregnant with Simon at the time, as she boarded a plane to Israel.
The bomb was discovered, and no one was hurt. But Simon's confession touches off a firestorm of controversy on the Web and fuels a wide range of reactions -- from sympathy to empathy and from love to hate.
But Egoyan does not see the response as coming from a singular collection of people all connected by the Web, but rather as reactions by different groups of Web users who have happened onto a small piece of information on the Internet.
"These are ultimately really closed communities that are responding to each other. It's just drowned out by kind of a global noise," Egoyan said.
Moreover, the Web is just one part of a multi-layered story in "Adoration" that ultimately tells of one teenager coming to a new understanding of himself, as well as his family's dealing with the pain and loss of Simon's mother and father who come from vastly different worlds.
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Music highlights for Tuesday, May 6
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Travolta defends his friend Cruise
Travolta defends his friend Cruise
Role player Lav Travolta has spoken up for his friend Tom Cruise, subsequently criticisms of the wiz followers the leaking of a Scientology video on the Net.
According to Multitude clip, Travolta said: "[Tom] has - we entirely experience - the right to practice how we experience. It lastly becomes unfair."
Travolta claimed that the media invasion into Cruise's life had gone besides far.
The former 'Grease' asterisk made the comments at the weekend, patch attending the G'Day US Army Gala affair to award vocalist Kiley Minogue.
Check come out whole the photographs from the G'Day America Jamboree here.
Spears flees sons' custody hearing
Spears flees sons' custody hearing
Pop vocaliser Britney Spears will not induce her visitation rights to her sons restored afterwards she missed a custody hearing yesterday.
The troubled vocaliser arrived at the courthouse yesterday for the afternoon proceeding simply got back into her gondola and left a short meter later without entering the building.
According to reports, Spears said: "I'm scared. I want to become in the elevator car. I'm going in the railcar," afterward she was met by paparazzi when she arrived at the courthouse.
Police force reportedly tried to coax cable the singer to dumbfound support out of her automobile by and by only she shouted "No", ahead departure the view.
A court voice later said that Spears' ex-husband Kevin Federline, wHO testified yesterday, would retain fillet of sole legal and physical hold of the two boys "indefinitely".
Federline's lawyer, Mark Vincent Kaplan, said: "The holy Scripture triumph is non something Mr Federline or his counselling would assign to this place."
He continued: "His hope is that he will be able to parent the children at more or less point in the future with participation from the mother."
will.i.am joins the Wolverine film
will.i.am joins the Wolverine film
Pitch blackness Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am is to star opposition Hugh Jackman in the freshly blockbuster 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine'.
Hoarding reports that will.i.am, real appoint William Samuel Adams, will playact the sport Shade in the 'X-Men' spinoff.
Shade has the exponent to make himself translucent.
The mold of the new film besides includes '30 Years of Night' principal Danny Huston, 'Friday Nox Lights' star Elizabeth Taylor Kitsch and 'The Number 23' star Lynn William Wilkie Collins.
'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' is due in cinemas on 1 English hawthorn 2009.
Eminem recovering from pneumonia
Eminem recovering from pneumonia
Rapper Eminem is recovering well at his Michigan home after he was hospitalised during the festive time of year for heart problems arising from a bout of pneumonia.
The Slim down Shady headliner, real number name Marshall Mathers Leash, has been suffering from multiple heath problems of late, and reports claim the lead has piled on the pounds as a leave - he at once weighs over 90.7 kilograms.
"All over the holidays, Marshal Mathers, aka Eminem, was below doctor's care at a Detroit-area
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