Searching, a suspense drama produced by Sony Columbia Pictures in the United States, released a formal preview, in which David King, the hero, launched an online search for his beloved daughter. However, with the deepening of online investigation, the truth became more confusing. Searching, who has premiered at Sundance Film Festival before and won two awards, is gaining popularity in North America. At present, the MTC score is 81, and the freshness of rotten tomatoes is 100%, achieving zero bad reviews in the true sense. This masterpiece of word of mouth will also land in North American cinemas on August 3 this year.
The disappearance of the good girl is clouded, and the camera angle is reeling.
The story focuses on the family of Han Yijin in San Jose, Northern California. In the trailer, margot, the lovely girl that David King has always been proud of, suddenly disappeared without leaving a clue. The female police detective who came to investigate the case found suspicious funds in her daughter’s bank account, and she forged a fake ID card before she disappeared, so she suspected that her daughter had run away from home. The father who was dissatisfied with this conclusion decided to investigate alone in order to find the truth. He used his daughter’s laptop to open a social networking site and searched for the whereabouts of his beloved daughter.
The film is based on novel materials. The webcam is the main vision of the whole film, and the complicated cases are completely presented on a computer screen. This form of expression is undoubtedly an innovative attempt in film shooting. As the trailer said, "It is a mirror of our life, a course of life, and a memory of us." The camera perspective contains pun reference, which not only bears the mirror of the plot trend, but also the mirror of the protagonist’s real life. When people rely more and more on social networks to record their lives, they also have to face up to the reverse invasion of life and the separation of family ties by social networks.
Sundance premiered and won a double prize. Word of mouth was zero. Summer painting was opened.
Sundance Film Festival, the world’s leading independent film festival, announced the list of winners in 2018. Searching won the next generation audience award and the Alfred Si Long feature film in one fell swoop, and became a well-deserved focus film of this year’s film festival. At the same time, the film also premiered at the film festival, which received a good response. The authoritative film review website "playlist" thinks that the whole experience of watching movies is "comparable to Hitchcock movies"; Hollywood Report’s evaluation of films is a novel attempt with high completion. Many media are full of praise for the director’s shooting method of recording from the perspective of webcam. "indiewire" thinks that the film maintains a nearly perfect connection with the audience, and the director uses a rather unique narrative technique to weave a unique film; Variety magazine even praised that "the director has found a new language, which not only conveys what we are eager to share, but also conveys a new way for us to keep in touch with the people we love."
It is worth mentioning that this film is the film debut of director anish Chaganti. Anish Chaganti, who once worked in Google’s advertising department, said that his creative inspiration benefited from his previous work experience at Google: "I have always been interested in telling original, emotional or scary stories in unexpected ways, which prompted me to use technology as a medium to tell stories." Judging from the film’s current performance of 81 points on the authoritative film review website MTC81 and 100% freshness of rotten tomatoes, the new director’s alternative attempt is undoubtedly worth looking forward to.
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