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USA 2020
produced by S. Roy Saringo, Katie Combs, Grace Santos (executive) for Bay Area Performing Arts & Casting, Ethos Pictures
directed by S. Roy Saringo, Katie Combs
starring Jenna Faller, Natalie Gerene Krueger, Lauren Parker, Caydince Carvalho, Bryce Nagel, Caleb Combs, Charlotte Swett, Gage Romanik, Jeffrey Goodwin, Jake Veit, Jim Sorensen, Katie Combs, Andrea Redwood, Brittany Redding, Leo Redding, Sydney Rayburn, Lauren Hancock, Michelle McKinney, Philippe Guillot, Anderson Ranson, Cameron Swango, Samantha VanDegriff, Lauren Turchan, Starr Grizzell, Amelia Roberts, Amelia Hines, Rachael Smith, Jim Van Deilin, Charles Broderick, Elizabeth Nagel
screenplay by S. Roy Saringo, Katie Combs, based on the musical by Katie Combs, music by Katie Combs, Joe Cosas, lyrics by Katie Combs
review by Mike Haberfelner
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They're 15 and in high school, and should be enjoying life as long as
they still can, but they have all fallen slave to social media, especially
after one of them, Masara (Natalie Gerene Krueger) has become an internet
sensation, for just "documenting" her life in vlogs. Since then,
Jess (Caydince Carvalho) has tried her own stab at internet fame doing
tutorial videos, but she just hasn't figured out yet what she's actually
good at. Logan (Jake Veit) meanwhile has just for fun posted a nude of his
maybe girlfriend Rebecca (Lauren Parker) on Instagram for the whole school
to see, embarrassing her in front of everybody, and Tyler (Jeffrey
Goodwin) and Charter (Bryce Nagel) don't consider it wrong to prank even
their friends on social media, not worrying about the consequences. But
there are kids who are much harder hit by the dark sides of living one's
life online, like Caroline, a gifted artist who is still emotionally
scarred by a video of her throwing a fit at age three that her mother put
online back when and that went viral. And then there's Dalton (Gage
Romanik), a loner and weirdo who feels the resentment he's met with in
daily life is only amplified by his life online, so much so that he one
day records a manifesto to put online, and then packs a gun and heads for
school ... One just can't but love the concept of this movie,
it's social satire/commentary with some pretty dark moments, packed into a
musical, with all the superficial wholesomeness tthat genre suggests - and
that "superficial wholesomeness" fits the story rather
perfectly, too, as the artificiality of the vlog-verse is one of the
central themes of the film. The music's suitably catchy then and really
hits the tone of the film, right in the middle between comedy and drama,
without overdoing it in either way, also thanks to the performers who keep
things grounded (both in their singing and acting) - and the result is a
quite unusual and in its seeming innocence rather thought-provoking movie.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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