
Web Junkies
At a locked facility outside Beijing, teenage boys diagnosed with internet addiction undergo months of military-style drills, therapy sessions, and enforced separation from screens. The film follows several inmates of the Daxing Boot Camp, along with the parents who committed them and the psychiatrist who runs the program and claims a seventy percent success rate. Interviews and fly-on-the-wall footage capture group therapy circles where boys talk about days spent gaming without eating or sleeping, and confrontations where parents describe fear and helplessness over children they no longer recognize. The camp's regimen includes hospital-style uniforms, physical training, and rules that treat any use of a computer as a symptom needing correction. Some boys resist, some perform compliance, and a few seem to genuinely reconsider what pulled them online in the first place. The film stays close to the facility rather than stepping back for outside experts, letting the boot camp's methods, and the desperation that sends families there, speak for themselves.