We Live in Public

Josh Harris, the focus of this documentary, is less important than what he proved: "civilized" people are only just a few steps away from being monsters.

Basically some failed internet mogul copycats MTV's The Real World (except in an underground bunker with guns, drugs and copious sex) breaks them all down like they're in Auschwitz and gets busted. Then he copies the movie The Truman Show and records everything he does. Except he's boring and nobody cares to watch. Then he lays bogus claims that he predicted FB and Google and you're forced to listen to what a "prophet" and "artist" this guy is. Then he loses his fortune because he's a dumbass.

Josh Harris came off as incredibly uncharismatic, despite the director's incessant praise of his genius. He may have predicted (or, been the forerunner for) reality TV and social networking, but anyone that's become jaded by all that garbage is going to hate this film.

Josh Harris isn't as fascinating as the director insists he is, in fact he is an incredibly pompous and unlikable ass. This constant search for fame and acceptance always makes me feel weird because I don't care about fame at all - a nice, quiet life is much more appealing. I just fail to see what the director found so fascinating about him, his view on life was juvenile and appalling. I laughed pretty hard on 2 occasions though: when he lost all his money and when he called himself an "artist."

A superficial look at a disgusting human.

I can't wait for the current Silicon Valley bubble to pop and expose more stories of deranged, unsustainable, narcissistic people like this. Didn't like the narration that seemed to validate Josh's actions when they didn't work, lost millions, and don't resemble the actual successes. No, you can't claim social networking, photo sharing, and reality TV as proof that Quiet was a success.

Bit of technology nostalgia in here. Highlight lies with the Quiet experiment and to a lesser extent - the living in public concept. Before that however, you have to understand what kind of subject matter you're dealing with by sitting through the Luvvy sequence.

Really interesting. But it's difficult to say whether Josh Harris or Troy Duffy (Overnight) makes for a more unlikable main subject of a documentary.

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Very intriguing look at an excessive artists who takes art to a frightening level.

"We Live in Public moves with the groove of the rock-star atmosphere that surrounded the dot-com kid moguls of the '90s." - Lauren Wissot

Josh Harris, ever hear of him? Me neither... not until I heard of this movie. The "Wharhol of the Web" came up with the ideas of Internet TV (Pseudo.com), statistic gathering, and the basis for many of today's social networking sites. So why isn't he mentioned as often as Gates or Jobs? Timing; The Internet wasn't able to handle the bandwidth needed for his visions. Not until broadband became commonplace for net access.

I would have loved to see an entire documentary that explored the madness of the Quiet project, which was the most fascinating part of (a mostly fascinating) Public, and makes today's Big Brother seem lame by comparison.