Wagner James Au / New World Notes

Click here to watch before Netflix pulls it from the streaming library (as the company often does): Life 2.0, the acclaimed 2010 documentary on virtual world life, love, business, and identity — and how they all bleed over into the real world. And I do mean acclaimed: After premiering at Sundance, the film had a good run in the arthouse circuit, garnered 89% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes*, a great review in the New Yorker, and then Oprah Winfrey picked it up for her new cable network,

I interviewed the director, Jason Spingarn-Koff, when the movie played at South by Southwest — watch below:

It's been awhile since I saw it, but as I recall, it dwelled a bit too much for my taste on the "dark side" of Second Life and the financial aspect of making a business in and marketing to the virtual world, and little about the many collaborative creation communities that flowered from everywhere. But that just means there's more stories to be told.

Anyway, please discuss in Comments!

* Interesting that Rotten Tomato's reader response is a very low 56% — probably suggesting the subject matter came across as creepy and/or depressing to a general audience.