Films: Searching
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I thought I might also review the odd movie. Not most of the dross that I go to with the kid (who has good taste, but still - kid films).
Searching is really good. I wasn't sure it was until I got out the movie and it was still ticking through my brain. Apparently it's by the same people who made Unfriended which is a more disturbing story told in a similar medium via webcams and screenshots and mostly online methods. Searching is the story of a Dad raising a teenage girl alone after mum dies of cancer, losing that teenage girl when she disappears, and the hunt to track her down. It's tense (probably more so if you're a parent looking at the WORST DAD EVER stories they show on Twitter under the #missingmargot hashtag) and it's wryly funny when they show how an essentially friendless girl suddenly becomes everywhere. What I didn't realise is there were a lot of virtual subplots going on behind the main windows of the plot, and I'd really enjoy rewatching it. There are a couple of pretty good twists and it's definitely worth a Netflix watch.
I thought I might also review the odd movie. Not most of the dross that I go to with the kid (who has good taste, but still - kid films).
Searching is really good. I wasn't sure it was until I got out the movie and it was still ticking through my brain. Apparently it's by the same people who made Unfriended which is a more disturbing story told in a similar medium via webcams and screenshots and mostly online methods. Searching is the story of a Dad raising a teenage girl alone after mum dies of cancer, losing that teenage girl when she disappears, and the hunt to track her down. It's tense (probably more so if you're a parent looking at the WORST DAD EVER stories they show on Twitter under the #missingmargot hashtag) and it's wryly funny when they show how an essentially friendless girl suddenly becomes everywhere. What I didn't realise is there were a lot of virtual subplots going on behind the main windows of the plot, and I'd really enjoy rewatching it. There are a couple of pretty good twists and it's definitely worth a Netflix watch.
