"Unfriending": How terrible the consequences of online violence are, a movie that all netizens should watch

Russell 2022-03-20 09:02:10

If you were asked to enumerate the current social relationships, what do you think is the most terrifying relationship, how would you choose? In my opinion, the most terrifying interpersonal relationship is not between superiors and subordinates, nor lovers and third parties, but when you open the page/dialog of the other party and find that the other party has unfriended/deleted.

In addition, it is not uncommon for the person concerned to commit suicide due to cyber violence (human flesh, abuse, etc.). I don't know where the current Internet comes from so much hostility. Whenever a hot event occurs, there are always some keyboard warriors who irresponsibly follow suit. So today I want to recommend a movie, the keywords are: keyboard warrior, cyber violence, social software/platform

When the pseudo-documentary could no longer satisfy the audience's freshness, the director adopted a very ingenious shooting method. He made the footage of all the actors appear on the computer camera, just like we usually start a video in a WeChat group chat. At the same time, the movie screen that the audience can see is the computer that the protagonist is looking at from the first perspective.

The software used in the film is also " Facebook, Skype, Gmail, Youtube, Google, Macbook " that American young people play the most , and mainland audiences can automatically replace it with " Wechat, Weibo, Youku, Baidu ". As audiences, we will enjoy a wonderful ghost revenge and friends tearing with a little voyeuristic pleasure .

At the beginning of the film, the heroine Blair and her boyfriend Mickey are flirting via Skype. A few friends joined the group chat before they answered, colliding with this restricted-level scene.

Needless to say, after a teasing, they found that a strange user also followed into the chat room. Tried to disconnect and reconnect many times, they just can't kick the person's account. So they thought it was a bug in the system and didn't take it seriously. Just then, the heroine received a message on Facebook from an old classmate , Laura Barnes .

However, Laura Barnes has long since passed away, and today just happens to be her one-year anniversary . Blair's first feeling was that someone was playing a prank, so she immediately asked back. At the same time, she opened a dialog with her boyfriend and asked him if he was doing the trick. Mickey replied that he hadn't, and discreetly sent Blair a link to a forum emphasizing: don't reply to messages from dead people.

Blair was scared too, but she didn't want to believe it was a ghost. So she went to report the account, but found that she could not submit a complaint.

Blair, who was confused, decided that his best friend Val was doing the trick. After pulling her into the group chat to confirm, he found that something was wrong. That's when pictures of Val's drunken gaffe started going viral on Facebook, and she started blaming Blair for leaking the photos.

Just as the small groups started to attack each other, the mysterious man's account started typing and speaking, claiming to be Billie . Open the other party's account, the ID column shows Laura's name. Billie sends Val the document, which she says contains her shady secrets. Disregarding the advice, Val, who was furious, hung up the communication and called the police. A few minutes later, the video showed her suicide.

Everyone immediately realized that this was no ordinary prank, and they didn't want to see Billie's account still there for a moment. So, the tech house was willing to send an antivirus software installation package to a friend, and after starting it, Billie finally disappeared. However, trying to get rid of Billie completely is a fantasy. Her account is logged in again, and the perspective is from Ken's bedroom.

This time, Ken is tortured and killed by the juicer.

The rest of the people were not spared, and were forced to play a game by Billie. loser, die. Liar, die . With the gradual deepening of the game, the truth slowly surfaced, it turned out that they were all related to the death of Laura Barnes.

In fact, Laura once participated in a party and was so drunk that she became incontinent and fell unconscious on the ground. Such an embarrassed appearance was filmed and posted on the Internet, making her the object of ridicule and humiliation by classmates and friends. Under the overwhelming abuse and sarcasm and strange eyes, Laura could not bear to commit suicide by swallowing a gun in shame.

Why does Laura hate Blair so much and keep her to the end to slowly torture her? This suspense is left to everyone to watch the movie and solve the mystery.

After watching this movie, the thing that made me more physically disgusted was Friend in the title of Unfriended . This group of people who spread rumors, vicious language attacks, whistleblowers, and promiscuity are not friends at all. In fact, even the dead Laura had bullied Val, who everyone disliked.

Such a fragile friendship gives the audience the illusion that they are watching a war of turmoil. Thousands of so-called friends on Facebook are actually just a collection of mutual interests or a superficial harmony that does not infringe on each other's interests. Those netizens who started to maintain and mourn the person after death are really a perfect portrayal of modern social network.

Finally, I want to say that as people living on the Internet, everyone should watch this movie. Don't act recklessly as a keyboard warrior on the Internet because some interests have been violated in life. Some irresponsible remarks will cause indelible damage to others. How can you walk by the river without getting your shoes wet? If you walk too much at night, you will always see ghosts. Even the Internet is not without a trace. Keyboard warriors should watch more of the endings of the main and supporting characters in the movie.

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Extended Reading
  • Vivianne 2022-01-06 08:01:20

    It’s fun to rip and fight hin, but it can only be effective when you watch it on a computer. If you watch this movie in the theater, it can be suffocated.

  • Francisca 2022-03-27 09:01:13

    3.5 probably? So far the best film from this so-called desktop filmmaking. Basically a textbook case to teach suture.

Unfriended quotes

  • Blaire Lily: For a sec I thought this was real

    Mitch Roussel: How do you know it's not?

    Blaire Lily: Stop trying to freak me out.

    Mitch Roussel: Or what?

    Blaire Lily: Or... I'll send my dad to fight you

    [winky emoji]

    Mitch RousselBlaire Lily: Your dad's not home...

    Blaire Lily: How do you know?

    Mitch Roussel: Cause he's out drinking with mine

    [sends link of Laura's facebook memorial page revealing the messenger to Laura]

  • Laura: [Adam dials the police] 911, please state your emergency.

    Adam Sewell: Yeah! Um, there's someone threatening me and my friends online and they also threatened our friend Valerie Rommel, you sent some officers over there earlier to her house but they didn't see what we saw. And there's a lot more to the story, so.

    Laura: What is your friend's address?

    Adam Sewell: What?

    Laura: Her address?

    Adam Sewell: Uh guys, guys what's her address?

    Jess Felton: Uh... hold on, I have it in my desk hold on.

    Adam Sewell: One sec...

    Jess Felton: 10705 East Bower.

    Adam Sewell: Yeah it's 10705 East Bower and he keeps threatening us and he won't leave us alone.

    Laura: Where are you right now sir?

    Adam Sewell: Um i'm at home, online... with my... with my friends

    Laura: Are you safe?

    Adam Sewell: Yeah.

    Laura: All of you?

    Adam Sewell: ...Yeah, we're good.

    Laura: Even Ken?

    Adam Sewell: What?

    Laura: Don't... Hang Up.

    Adam Sewell: What?

    Jess Felton: Wha-What just happened?

    Adam Sewell: Shhh, Shhh!

    Laura: I said, Don't... Hang Up.

    Blaire Lily: Who did you call?

    Adam Sewell: Fuck!

    [weighs back in chair in frustration]

    Adam Sewell: It's this fucking arsewhole!

    [Laura's account then rejoins the group convo]