In May of this year, the BBC published an article in which the Royal Society for Public Health published a study on the impact of social networks on the health of young people. Among them, among the five most popular social software surveyed, Instgram was rated as the social software that has the greatest negative impact on young people by absolute proportion. This study shows that Instgram is very easy to cause mental anxiety and depression among young people, because many young people said that when they see their friends or Internet celebrities they follow on Instgram, they are always on vacation, entertaining, and enjoying abundance. In the nightlife, this makes them feel that they are outdated, xenophobic, and unable to keep up with the pace of other young people.
Although this BBC survey is based on the British population, and the five social software surveys have also been banned by the Chinese dynasty, please believe that if one day the same survey is conducted in the Chinese dynasty, the social software will be replaced by Weibo and Weibo. Compared with the BBC's, the results obtained on WeChat must be better than those of the BBC. Compared with the living environment in foreign countries, the expressions of the Chinese are relatively subtle, which has caused more and more young people to show themselves on the Internet, because in this way, the "subtle" Chinese people can interact under these Internet dynamics. Over time, social platforms have become the "best" platform for self-exhibition. I believe that no one will let people see their bad side on their booth. It is precisely because of this that more and more people are trapped in the virtual world of the network platform under the guise of vanity, unable to extricate themselves.
Having said so much, let’s get down to the film. What "Ingrid Goes West" shows is a unique cultural phenomenon in the current Internet age. It is an amplification of the negative impact of social software on its users, and it is also a favorite People living in the virtual world once pointed out the irony of current malpractices. Ingrid, the protagonist in this movie, is one of the most poisoned by social software. She has nothing to do all day, her mobile phone does not leave her hand, and her favorite thing to do on weekdays is to scan Instagram, keep praising the people she follows (this is nothing more than hoping that others will like her back), jealous of friends who live better than herself A good life, I envy the daily life of Internet celebrities. After getting a windfall, she came to California alone in order to follow an internet celebrity, met the internet celebrity here, and embarked on her own ridiculous and absurd path of internet celebrity.
The movie starring Aubrey Plaza is such a niche comedy regulars, she can always funny interpretation of the film characters such hero funny and vivid, we can say, without her interpretation of the protagonist, the film is unlikely to make such a Impressive effect. And she is also one of the producers of this film, and she can accurately choose such a grounded material to make the film, which shows how much Aubrey understands the lives of young people nowadays.
Ingrid, the protagonist played by Aubrey, is a condensed body of young people who are addicted to online social software. Her hypocrisy and admiration for vanity have reached the pinnacle level. In order to become popular, she copied everything about the life of an internet celebrity as it was, and in order to post nice photos on Instagram, the same food as an internet celebrity, but the moment she ate it, she was disgusted by the unacceptable taste. I can lie in bed at night and eat my own delicacy—McDonald's French fries. This is just an example of many similar plots in the whole film. Although it is inevitable that it may be exaggerated for theatrical effect, the absurd things young people do to get attention on the Internet are enough to get a glimpse of one or two.
Examples such as the above are common in the whole movie. People can't help but laugh, and they can't help but think of themselves or the people around them. Just ask, whoever has posted photos on an online platform hasn't done anything like this before. Where's the stupid thing? In order to gain recognition on the Internet, the protagonist in the film lied, even at the expense of his family. In real life, what young people do to satisfy their vanity is no better than her. In response to this point, this movie made a ruthless criticism of social software, and a shameful scolding of so-called internet celebrities.
After watching this movie, we can't help thinking about our daily lives. In this era of rapid development of mobile phone networks, what have social software and smartphones brought to us? Recall that no matter which time you go out to dinner or party with three or five friends, the first thing everyone sits at the table is to take out their mobile phones to scan Weibo and Moments; every time they go to a restaurant that is slightly higher-end or decorated with art, How much time do we spend taking selfies and taking pictures of meals after serving? Many people’s lives seem to be shown to others. Under the influence of comparison and vanity, many people choose to live in the bubble life that they have built on the Internet. Many people are even soberly aware that all this is just an impractical. The castle in the air, but they have been poisoned, instead of letting themselves face the reality, they would rather numbly give up extricating themselves in the online world. There is reason to believe that when these people live in the online world, like Ingrid in the film, if they are beaten on the floor of reality by life, they will also be like Ingrid, not knowing how to deal with their distorted real life.
The whole movie uses a slightly exaggerated and extremely funny method to sound a wake-up call for us in the age of social networks. Choosing whether to live in reality or to operate the network may be a problem that each of us has to face. . At the end of the movie, the first sentence of Ingrid, who survived a catastrophe, opened her eyes on the hospital bed. Unsurprisingly, "where is my phone?", when she saw her fans on the Internet and When the messages were overwhelming, a terrible smile appeared at the corner of her mouth. The reason she laughed was only because she knew that she was finally red, but her red was exchanged for her almost lost life. The curtain of the movie was suddenly darkened after Ingrid's terrible smile. This is undoubtedly an extremely terrifying ending, because no one knows what the girl who has finally become red will do next; but facing this is like a black hole. Without endless shady, we can't help asking silently in our hearts: Is it really worth it to almost lose our life for red?
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