Anyone who has been attentive to the development of his career knows that the American actress of Latin descent Aubrey Plaza is particularly apt to play roles that show her as a disquieting woman, which has to do with their evident interpretive qualities, but is also favored By the use he makes of his own physiognomy.
Thus, the daughter of a Puerto Rican and an Irishwoman who became known through the television series "Parks and Recreation" has had such roles in feature films as "Safety Not Guaranteed", "The Do List" and "Life After Beth "; But the truth is that if you try to put yourself in the skin of rare characters that you can not stop looking, the best opportunity that she has had to date is the one granted by "Ingrid Goes West", an Independent production that opens this Friday and that could be simply comic if it was not so disturbing.
In fact, the combination of feelings generated by this work is what makes it a proposal certainly difficult to assimilate for the viewer who simply expects a story full of laughter with a happy ending, although for us that is precisely what gives it a value Especially to a film in which all the characters are glamorously superficial, but they are precisely because the intention is to show the ends to which many of the millennials have arrived.
In this case, the extremes mainly relate to an obsession with social networks that can become unhealthy, as happens with Ingrid (Plaza), presented from the beginning as an unstable girl from Pennsylvania who has been given an order Restriction for stalking a popular young woman intolerably more or less than on her wedding day. But, as is immediately apparent, Ingrid has not learned the lesson.
His next victim is Taylor (Elizabeth Olsen, of the "Avengers" saga), a Californian 'influencer' who promotes the virtues of his life by the sea through countless #s and has even appeared in a long article in a magazine fashion. After receiving a positive message from her on Facebook, Ingrid decides to use the money that her recently deceased mother has left her (yes, there goes the thing) to move to Los Angeles and become a real friend of the unsuspecting, whatever Cost.
In those moments, the plot reaches a point where we think we are facing one of those thrillers of obsession and harassment that we have seen over the years (there is even a direct mention of "Single White Female"); But the director and co-writer Matt Spicer is right to take things on the other hand, since although he does not stop presenting situations that limit with the criminal, try to keep them on a plausible level to keep the social commentary he supports.
Not everything works; There are some forced situations and several reactions of the characters that do not make much sense, although it could be said that they are also references to the level of egocentrismo and of stupidity reached by this class of people. But seeing Plaza interacting with the equally talented Olsen already pays the price of admission; And we should be blind not to feel the current level of the story that is used.
Thus, the daughter of a Puerto Rican and an Irishwoman who became known through the television series "Parks and Recreation" has had such roles in feature films as "Safety Not Guaranteed", "The Do List" and "Life After Beth "; But the truth is that if you try to put yourself in the skin of rare characters that you can not stop looking, the best opportunity that she has had to date is the one granted by "Ingrid Goes West", an Independent production that opens this Friday and that could be simply comic if it was not so disturbing.
In fact, the combination of feelings generated by this work is what makes it a proposal certainly difficult to assimilate for the viewer who simply expects a story full of laughter with a happy ending, although for us that is precisely what gives it a value Especially to a film in which all the characters are glamorously superficial, but they are precisely because the intention is to show the ends to which many of the millennials have arrived.
In this case, the extremes mainly relate to an obsession with social networks that can become unhealthy, as happens with Ingrid (Plaza), presented from the beginning as an unstable girl from Pennsylvania who has been given an order Restriction for stalking a popular young woman intolerably more or less than on her wedding day. But, as is immediately apparent, Ingrid has not learned the lesson.
His next victim is Taylor (Elizabeth Olsen, of the "Avengers" saga), a Californian 'influencer' who promotes the virtues of his life by the sea through countless #s and has even appeared in a long article in a magazine fashion. After receiving a positive message from her on Facebook, Ingrid decides to use the money that her recently deceased mother has left her (yes, there goes the thing) to move to Los Angeles and become a real friend of the unsuspecting, whatever Cost.
In those moments, the plot reaches a point where we think we are facing one of those thrillers of obsession and harassment that we have seen over the years (there is even a direct mention of "Single White Female"); But the director and co-writer Matt Spicer is right to take things on the other hand, since although he does not stop presenting situations that limit with the criminal, try to keep them on a plausible level to keep the social commentary he supports.
Not everything works; There are some forced situations and several reactions of the characters that do not make much sense, although it could be said that they are also references to the level of egocentrismo and of stupidity reached by this class of people. But seeing Plaza interacting with the equally talented Olsen already pays the price of admission; And we should be blind not to feel the current level of the story that is used.