☆ ☆ ☆ ½
Searching (2018) – A. Chaganty
In fact, the gimmick here works pretty smoothly – all images are mediated through computer screens (that is, social media, facetime, news broadcasts, security cameras, etc.). Director Aneesh Chaganty (in his feature debut) keeps things moving along with one clue to the disappearance of teenager Margot Kim (Michelle La) after another in reasonably rapid succession and through a variety of different online methods. John Cho plays the distraught dad, who hasn’t kept up with his daughter’s activities as well as he could, after his wife/her mum died of cancer. Debra Messing is the police detective assigned to the case. I wasn’t bored but after all was said and done, perhaps this is just an enjoyable thriller and nothing deeper (the fact that we all engage in so much screen time now and leave so many traces of ourselves is hardly surprising). Interestingly, only a couple of years later, the technology already feels a bit out-of-date – but I’m not an Apple person, so perhaps that’s it.
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