An ambitious young woman finds followers and fame when she poses as the survivor of a deadly attack, but she soon learns that online notoriety comes with a terrible price.An ambitious young woman finds followers and fame when she poses as the survivor of a deadly attack, but she soon learns that online notoriety comes with a terrible price.An ambitious young woman finds followers and fame when she poses as the survivor of a deadly attack, but she soon learns that online notoriety comes with a terrible price.
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I don't understand the bad reviews on this film. This film is representing today's society and explaining that most things on social media is fake and how far people are willing to go to get followers.
We are living in a shallow society and it is sad.
This film picks up on the desperation of this generation.
I think Zoey plays this extremely well.
Some people don't realise the down fall and the negative impact that this can have on you and this film shows how a rise and fall can affect you mentally and personally and it really is such ashame for society and this film explains that.........
We are living in a shallow society and it is sad.
This film picks up on the desperation of this generation.
I think Zoey plays this extremely well.
Some people don't realise the down fall and the negative impact that this can have on you and this film shows how a rise and fall can affect you mentally and personally and it really is such ashame for society and this film explains that.........
This is one of those super empty movies that you forget 2 days later that you even watched it. The acting is mostly but the story could have been sooo much more. Instead, it felt cringey like 90% of the time. It definitely had so much potential. Things got real bad for her in the end, I get it, but honestly they should have gotten way worse. I feel like we barely just scratched the surface of how bad things could have gotten for her.
I do think that the story was very original. We really do live in a social media consumed world. Influencers are portrayed as the vapid empty creatures that they are. But that's also the problem - it's showing all these stereotypes and it's making fun of them but it's doing such a bad job at it that the movie ends up being the butt of the joke. If you're going to make fun of something bad at least do a good job at it. Otherwise you're going to look even worse than the very bad thing you've making fun of. I guess no one told the writers that... Oh, well. Here goes another movie no one will be talking about 2 weeks from now.
I do think that the story was very original. We really do live in a social media consumed world. Influencers are portrayed as the vapid empty creatures that they are. But that's also the problem - it's showing all these stereotypes and it's making fun of them but it's doing such a bad job at it that the movie ends up being the butt of the joke. If you're going to make fun of something bad at least do a good job at it. Otherwise you're going to look even worse than the very bad thing you've making fun of. I guess no one told the writers that... Oh, well. Here goes another movie no one will be talking about 2 weeks from now.
Zoey Deutch is Danni, a photo editor at an online magazine who more than anything yearns to be well known and held in high regard by the trendy youth of America. She fakes a visit to Paris but when there is terrorist attack there she pretends she survived this and subsequently gains a phenomenal following. She befriends a school shooting survivor, Rowan, who speaks eloquently in public and slowly Danni realises that her life priorities might need reassessing. However her lies start to catch up with her.
Vicious and rather enjoyable black comedy sticking it to fame in general, social media and the millions who blindly follow whatever they're shown. Deutch is excellent in the lead, often funny and ghastly at the same time, yet still managing somehow to gain our sympathy despite her naivity, selfishness and lack of moral compass.
Vicious and rather enjoyable black comedy sticking it to fame in general, social media and the millions who blindly follow whatever they're shown. Deutch is excellent in the lead, often funny and ghastly at the same time, yet still managing somehow to gain our sympathy despite her naivity, selfishness and lack of moral compass.
Obviously, this movie was painful and hateable at first. The main character is awful - they tell you that before it even starts. But by the end you just might feel something. She grows, in more ways than you expect. Give it a chance.
I've stopped watching a lot of movies and shows before finishing them, so I know the temptation. This one is worth finishing.
I've stopped watching a lot of movies and shows before finishing them, so I know the temptation. This one is worth finishing.
I think they unexpectedly gave the middle finger to their own generation with this flick. It was an interesting window into teen and young adult life today just as much as Fast Times or Breakfast Club were our generations mirror on the Zeitgeist at that time.
Did you know
- TriviaDirector Quinn Shepard told IndieWire that they decided to add a disclaimer at the beginning of the film that warns it contains an "unlikable female protagonist" after several people at test screenings asked why they would make a movie with an unlikable woman as the main character. Shepard said it's something she's repeatedly heard in the industry, and a lot of her other writer friends have as well. Though she admitted she didn't understand why since films featuring unlikeable male protagonists are often hailed as modern masterpieces. Audiences understood that those films were "a statement and not an endorsement," so why can't the same apply to women?
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Written by Pierre-Philippe Côté and Quinn Shephard
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oh Child! and Georgette perform courtesy of Label Étiquette
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