Genre: Drama/ Thriller
Runtime: 100 minutes
Year: 2018
Starring: John Cho, Debra Messing, Sara Sohn, Alex Jayne Go, Megan Liu, Kya Dawn Lau, Michelle La, Joseph Lee, Dominic Hoffman, Connor McRaith, Briana McLean
Description: After his 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a desperate father (John Cho) breaks into her laptop to look for clues to find her.
Review: Like many of us can’t sit through an entire movie without checking their phone, that’s how attached David Kim is to the digital world. When his 16-year old daughter Margot doesn’t respond to his message, he sends another one. And another one and another one. Just as many times before he gets angry. But this anger soon turns into concern. Where is Margot?
However the police, with detective Rosemary Vick leading the investigation, does everything they can to find Margot, for David it doesn’t go fast enough. He uses Margot’s laptop to find out more about her disappearance. He goes through her social media, e-mail, messages. David finds out that his daughter was a total stranger to him.
In this ambitious thriller, by director Aneesh Chaganty, everything is seen though media screens. It feels weird at first, but you get used to it very easily. We see what David Kim sees and does. Sending messages, clicking and opening tabs, facetiming.
The film has a simple title and a theme that has been used many times before, but this film is very complex and unique because of the used format. And “Searching” is a highly unpredictable film, that will even fool the more experienced moviegoer. There are some unexpected twists, which is very rare in Hollywood these days.
The average film fan will not appreciate this film for what it is and what it does, but if you look deeper and further, you see the excellence that is called “Searching”. It’s great to see originality hasn’t died yet!
Rating: 4,5/ 5
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