This is a movie with a very simple plot: After the beloved wife died of illness, as a single-parent family, David Kim, as a father, was not good at words, and accompany him carefully to maintain the relationship with his daughter. Suddenly one day, the daughter disappeared, showing no signs... The father knew very little about his daughter’s actual friends, so he could only gradually understand his daughter’s situation through the Internet, and slowly restored the timeline before and after the daughter’s disappearance.
Forget who said it, "It is not easy to make simple stories wonderful."
In addition to the novel shooting techniques, the director does catch the hearts of the audience very well. The rhythm of the film is well controlled. During the viewing process, there seems to be an illusion of watching news or documentaries. Just like peeling onions one by one, let me experience the long-lost "intrinsic reasoning" again.
I noticed the word "horror" in several tags of the film. I thought it was a horror film. After watching it, I understood why the whole film didn't have a bloody and terrifying picture, but after watching it, it made people feel chilly. , Panic (will be discussed in detail later).
I think this film must have hit some "face-blind" patients (laughs.gif). After discovering that his daughter was missing, David quickly checked his daughter's social accounts for clues, and listed the information of netizens who she often contacted in a tabular form, and listed them one by one. Calling to find out the situation (including photos, names, narratives, what are you doing on the day, etc.), I have to sigh here. As an engineer, my father should be a methodical person.
On many social platforms, among the people who frequently interact with his daughter, David can always find out where and where he sees familiar faces. This is really an amazing intuition/ability/sixth sense... Anyway, This is also one of the keys for the father to find his daughter in the end.
The second point is that I don’t know if anyone has the same question as me? When he first met the female police officer in charge of this case, after knowing the name, David searched Google. . . I think this behavior is very strange. Is David an insecure person? Whenever a new person appears, do I have to search for it? ? ? When I saw this, I couldn't understand it.
But in the end it was his "skeptical attitude" that saved his daughter.
He searched for her and saw a photo of her with a group of people. Then when the policewoman claimed to have caught the suspect, the suspect himself recorded a video as strong evidence. The face of the drug addict in the video was exactly the one that appeared in the group photo when David was randomly searching for the policewoman before. Zhang Lian, the policewoman had known this "suspect" a long time ago.
Since then, David has begun to sort out, personally think that this is the most important point of the whole film. If David hadn't questioned the police officer from beginning to end, this disappearance would be a complete conspiracy tragedy.
>>> Which points reflect reality?
1. The person in charge of the study class (girls with instant noodle hair, remember that their skin is a bit dark)
Just missing daughter, and daughter, according to last chats on her classes, the daughter of David phone in the past asked whether abnormalities such as classes, wants to get some clues from the side, but the person in charge of classes a little impatient, has been Emphasizes that he and his daughter are not very familiar , only knowing when she left the school last time.
But in the latter scene, the policewoman announced that the murderer had been caught. She said that the evidence provided by the murderer in the video also showed that the daughter was more likely to be guilty and could be presumed to have been killed. Later, TV news media reported the latest developments and social networks did not show weakness. There was a video of the instant noodle girl. She cried bitterly in front of the camera, saying that Margot had a very good relationship with her, indicating that she was very sad about the ending . . . There is a detail in the film. The click-through rate of this video of her has gone up, I remember that it was exposed in six figures.
Isn't it hypocritical? Do not take such a hot spot...
2. Social profile picture = cheating?
It's definitely not good to be killed by such a stick, but it should be said that few people now use their real photos as avatars (unless some special network platforms require users to upload real avatars as such). Also for security reasons, the problem of personal privacy leakage is already very serious.
Even some people who share real photos in their duties, in order to make the photos look dazzling, usually don’t even recognize their own mothers in their photos P╮(╯▽╰)╭
In the film, when the police have basically determined that Margot was killed and the news media have reported, David remembered that his mailbox had received an advertising email for funeral services. He was already depressed and unable to fight back. He clicked on the email and uploaded Margot as required. After submitting some of the life video materials, a page pops up. David looked at the page and his eyes straightened!
The face of that woman, he saw when he searched, isn't it the "Fish and Chips" netizen who interacted most with his daughter's videos! He quickly searched for this face, and found a lot of advertisements, brand promotion all have this face! It should be that the other party randomly found a photo of an advertising model as a profile picture on the Internet.
This makes me think that in reality, many economic fraud crimes are often the case. The scammer feels that changing the profile picture is like changing the individual. If there is a real-name system, it is better to lock the person through the mobile phone number, but for the victim, the proof will be It becomes very difficult.
3. FIN jacket, the boy who was beaten
During the filming process, David discovered that his daughter liked to go to a lake to relax. The lake was only 5 minutes away from the place where his daughter was last monitored and photographed. He was soon notified of the new clue to the police (at this time, David has not suspected the policewoman). The car was salvaged from the water. A picture of the contents of the car revealed a coat with a "FIN" circular icon. David suddenly thought of where he had seen him, and quickly searched through the netizen who found a daughter, whose profile picture was wearing clothes with this icon.
David quickly flipped through the man's social updates, 7min ago he was in a theater... rushed there, found the man, confronted him on the spot, and beat him. The whole process was filmed by others in the theater and posted on the Internet.
For this reason, the female police banned David from continuing to participate in the investigation. Finally, everyone knows that the boy who was beaten was wronged.
Although he can understand David's feelings, he can't solve any problems and make things worse. Everyone in the social environment wants to become the focus, become QUEEN / KING, and is keen on all kinds of life to expose their own personality, which often provides convenience for some people with different intentions.
4. The crime of shielding his son
In the end everyone knew that the policewoman’s son pushed Margot off the cliff... Going home and told his mother that as a policewoman and a mother at the same time, her first thought was to help her son cover up, pretending to be "li Run away from home". Margot has lost her mother and has been smoking marijuana. The public will completely believe that she has a relationship with her father and ran away from home.
The question is, why would she do this?
As a police officer, she must be very clear about how many cases of missing boys and girls are stranded in the United States every year, or can’t say it. She must have a good grasp of it, so she is willing to take this risk to help her son get through this difficult situation. .
I don't want to say that power corruption is so great, but at least it is an abuse of power.
Being a policeman is not worth trusting, so who else can you trust? Do we have to be like David, all new acquaintances and contacts in life need to search? ! (We also don't have google).
Feel free to talk about the afterthoughts, I didn't expect to be so long-winded... Thanks for the patience to see the end of the friends, most importantly, this is really a rare good film! It's worth a few words.
I forgot which director gave the speech, "A good movie. It's not the kind of movie that makes you stand up and applaud after watching it, but the ones that make you sit in your seat silent for a long time after watching it... " I think searching is such a movie.
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