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Finding Paul Miller: One Year Without the Internet
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Finding Paul Miller: One Year Without the Internet

2013 · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Paul Miller quit the internet for exactly 365 days, and this film picks up the story after he logged back on. Made by The Verge, it revisits the year he spent writing about disconnection, expecting a story of clarity and self-discovery, and instead finds something messier. Interviews with Miller and the people around him trace what actually happened once the novelty wore off: the isolation that crept in, the habits that didn't magically improve just because a browser was closed, and the uncomfortable realization that the internet wasn't really the problem he thought it was. Footage from his year offline sits alongside his return, showing the gap between the narrative he expected to tell and the one he ended up living. Rather than delivering a tidy lesson about technology and willpower, the film sits with Miller's disappointment in himself, making the case that walking away from a device doesn't automatically fix whatever you were avoiding in the first place.