(re)Search my Trash

<body> <div align="left"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="800" cellpadding="0" height="100%"> <tr> <td width="100" rowspan="2" background="../stylepix/square.gif" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="2"></td> <td width="592" valign="top"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="592"> <tr> <td width="100%">  </td> </tr> </table>    <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="255" align="right"> <tr> <td width="100%"> <p align="right"><img border="0" src="../stills/filtered-poster.jpg" width="250" height="388"></td> </tr> </table> <p>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 ...<p> <p>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.<p>  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="2"></td> <td width="100" rowspan="2" background="../stylepix/squareright.gif" valign="top">  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top">  <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> currentyear = "2021"; </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript" src="../scripts/endcredits.js"></SCRIPT> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> dosworsdonn(); </SCRIPT> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body>