Michael's Movie Grade: A-
A dark and twisted but absorbing movie.
This is a thriller made for this social media age. It holds up a mirror to our current culture and few of us will like what we see. This film shows the artificiality of our social media obsessed world and yet it understands the lure of it as well. It shows how the attention and approval that we can get on social media can be addicting, even if we know it is artificial. The main character in this film gains a taste of this and it is not long until he is consumed by it. It gets to the point where he would do anything (no matter how unethical) to keep it. What makes this film so frightening is even with how dark this character's actions get, we can still see too much of ourselves in him. We all have this desire for approval even approval we know is artificial. With each of this film's dark twists it becomes more uncomfortable to watch. Even if this is not exactly a pleasant viewing experience, it is a compelling one as we remain glued to our seats waiting to see which dark turn it will go down next. This is not hurt by truly great and complex performances from an excellent cast led by Théodore Pellerin and Archie Madekwe. I will not spoil the dark turns this film goes down but many of them are quite unexpected and intelligent.
This is a horrifying but truly compelling look at the results of a social media obsessed world.
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