Viral propaganda is certainly annoying. And when you really watch this movie, you will find that, regardless of the boring storyline and the old-fashioned way of unfolding, all you see throughout the story are only the female lead’s computer screen (except for the last 5 seconds). The surprise to the audience is not inferior to how people feel when they see "Blair the Witch" for the first time.
The development of pseudo-documentaries seems to have been at a bottleneck so far. When the audience is not easily scared by a "real shot" video tape, "Unfriended" finally opened up a new idea. When the hostess was scared, she opened iMessage to find her boyfriend to comfort her, and when she heard the Police Code that she didn’t understand, she immediately went to the search engine to find the answer, and when encountering unexplainable supernatural events, she went to the relevant forum to discuss...this kind of real sense of substitution People are always excited. Another big advantage of this setting is that when you can only see the screen of the computer, you will know nothing about things other than the protagonist's manipulation of the computer. This feature was cleverly applied to the facsimile letter plot in the later part of the movie, creating suspense.
The "how to tell" the story of a thriller movie should not be less important than the "what" of the story. The success of Buried Alive is a good example. After all, what audiences want to spend to watch this kind of movie is excitement. Actually, everyone doesn't care about the storyline. If you let me watch it, it will be worth the price.
"Unfriended" as a movie itself has many problems, but at least it tells everyone that there is still room for improvement and innovation in pseudo-documentaries. When I got up and left after watching the movie, I looked back and saw the unreserved surprises on the faces of other audiences. This is the best proof that the audience is willing to see more of this new gadget.
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