Overview
After David Kim's 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a local investigation is opened and a detective is assigned to the case. But 37 hours later and without a single lead, David decides to search the one place no one has looked yet, where all secrets are kept today: his daughter's laptop.
I think my favorite thing about this film is how it took a new approach to story telling. About halfway through the film I noted that this is the first film that I can recall seeing where it assumed that the user new about facebook, twitter, instagram, etc. This allowed the director to give the user the backstory in a really creative way without spending much time (in recent years Woody Allen would do the same using a narrator). What the character didn’t send via text was often more interesting in that you got a sense for what they were struggling with as they backspaced their initial thoughts.
I thought the story was well delivered and the end satisfying.
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Movie title: Searching
Movie description: After David Kim's 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a local investigation is opened and a detective is assigned to the case. But 37 hours later and without a single lead, David decides to search the one place no one has looked yet, where all secrets are kept today: his daughter's laptop.
Date published: 2018-11-30
Director(s): Aneesh Chaganty
Actor(s): John Cho, Michelle La, Debra Messing, Joseph Lee, Sara Sohn, Briana McLean, Thomas Barbusca, Erica Jenkins, Connor McRaith, Dominic Hoffman, Ric Sarabia, Steven Michael Eich, Melissa Disney, Roy Abramsohn, Sean O'Bryan, Benjamin J. Cain Jr., Alex Jayne Go, Megan Liu, Kya Dawn Lau, Colin Woodell, Reed Buck, Brad Abrell, Courtney Lauren Cummings, Sylvia Minassian
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Mystery
My Review
I think my favorite thing about this film is how it took a new approach to story telling. About halfway through the film I noted that this is the first film that I can recall seeing where it assumed that the user new about facebook, twitter, instagram, etc. This allowed the director to give the user the backstory in a really creative way without spending much time (in recent years Woody Allen would do the same using a narrator). What the character didn’t send via text was often more interesting in that you got a sense for what they were struggling with as they backspaced their initial thoughts.
I thought the story was well delivered and the end satisfying.
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My Review - 8.5/10
8.5/10