9/8/2018 1 Comment *SPOILER* searching (2018)Director: Aneesh Chaganty
Searching is about a teenage girl Margo goes missing and her dad David tries to find her with detective Vick. He logs into Margo's Mac and all her social accounts to find leads. During the process, David realizes that he doesn't know his girl at all after his wife's death--she eats her lunch alone every day, she didn't go to her piano classes for six months, she smokes weed...with his brother. Several days after, Vick calls and claims that they have found the criminal, and Margo, unfortunately is dead. PLOT TWIST. The detective Vick plans all this, because her son was the one who accidently pushes Margo down to the hill and Vick tries to cover for her son, so she volunteers to help David. And it turns out that Margo might still have a chance of living and is saved by the rescuers. First of all, I believe most people have noticed, that this movie is entirely showed through computer screens. The opening scene is the initial screen when a computer is turned on. And it ends with shutting down the computer. Everything happens through facetiming, texting, security cameras, Youtube and news. It is absolutely clever and interesting, it actually cuts off a lot of unnecessary scenes that usually makes me impatient. Without this, the movie would still be good, but probably less fascinating (Because it does take a while to introduce Margo's mom's death which could be bored to me, but the way it presents makes it much better). Chaganty must have spent a lot of time to figure how it is gonna work and he did a good job. However, I do think there's some drawbacks. Several scenes are too vague since they have to do the effects of streaming cameras, security cameras, etc. Because I saw the movie on a big screen, I almost hope that they don't waste the high quality of the big screen. But overall it is still very good. And Aneesh also did a good job on foreshadowing things which I really enjoy. For example, Vick was telling David a story of her and her son to cheer him up. She said her son was stealing money for a fictional charity organization from the neighbours. And David asks her what she did to fix this. She said I told the neighbors she did found the organization to help his son. And it turns out she could do a lot more for her son. When Vick was facetiming David, her son shows up in the background. She yelled at her son and said "let me handle this." Rating: 6.8/10
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