‘Searching’ Is Perspective Done Right

FILM: Searching (2018)

STARS: John SearchingCho, Debra Messing

WHERE: Keller Plaza 8 (St. Louis, MO). FYI: Prices just went to $4 for evenings and $3 for matinees!!

PREMISE: Story told through use technology interactions (emails, facetime, online news, video blogs, etc.). A recent widower’s teenage daughter disappears, and he discovers he is not as close to his daughter as he thought as he tries to discover where she might have gone before it is too late.

HE SAID: I liked it.  Engaging story, told well.  Good twists. SCORE: 7 (On a scale of 1 to 10)

SHE SAID: I really liked it too. Well cast, with good performances by all.  Suspenseful but with heart.  Much better use of the technology/social media perspective than the film Unfriended (2014).  That film felt limited by the isolating it to the social media platform.  This film didn’t, and it made you more aware of the footprints we leave on technology everyday.  SCORE: 7.5 (On a scale of 1 to 10)

 

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