© Provided by ColliderIn the absence of 2018's The Search , and now its phony sequel, the idea of a "screen life" narrative is not a gimmick, but a way to show a side of a person's life that's easy to overlook. with any other history. The wanted and disappearance stories are told exclusively from screens, phones, surveillance cameras, or, more often, computer screens, and we mostly recognize these characters from their activities on the Internet. On the internet, we can be whoever we want to be, and these films explore the many personalities and lives we live through technology.
The investigation took us beyond the mystery of a father trying to find his missing daughter and showed us how to use technology to find out who a person is and try to find her using a computer. But Missing expands on that idea, exploring the many lives we all live, the ways we can change and stay the same, and the dangerous possibilities the Internet offers.
"Missing " follows June Allen ( Storm Reed ) as she stays home alone while her mother Grace ( Nia Long ) and her new boyfriend Kevin Lynn ( Ken Lang ) go on vacation to Columbia. But when Grace and Kevin don't return from vacation, June tries her own way to find out what happened to them by digging through online accounts and dark emails. Along the way, June is helped by her mother's best friend ( Amy Landecker ), June's best friend Vena ( Megan Suri ), and Javier Ramos ( Joaquim de Almeida ), a TaskRabbit-like Colombian site that helps June on the spot. Colombia
'Missing' Trailer Shows Storm Reid Looking For His Mother In 'Searching' Sequel
Like Searching , Missing shows the amazing beauty of the technological age, but also the dangers of this virtual world. For example, Jun's father died when he was young, but he can be remembered from videos of the two of them as children. In a particularly cute moment, we see messages on a dating app between Grace and Kevin and how their love began.
The missing also appear in Searching , a story that spans two countries and a mystery that delves into the internet's darkest possibilities. Despite the limitations of a PG-13 detective thriller, screenwriters Sev Ohanian and Anesh Chaganti (who also wrote The Search ) create Missing with very real tension and danger. Ohanian and Chaganti also do a great job of introducing clues to the audience, giving them enough evidence to keep them guessing along the way, throwing in red flags and dead ends that only add to the excitement of their story. Meat is smart but keeps his cards to himself so the audience can't guess.
Nick Johnson and Will Merrick, who made their directorial debuts, give the story a lot of value despite being told entirely on screen. Missing Persons not only explore , but find ways to play with this potentially limiting concept. For example, using a TV show in a movie called Unfiction allows for fun ways to play around with this structure, and finding cameras in different places is a smart way to build that world without feeling useless. .
However, if there is one small note about Missing , if the film wants to present itself as a story told entirely through screens, the use of non-diegetic music is technically a departure from that concept. Julian Scherle's music is effective and playfully plays on the audience's tension, but given that we have Spotify, YouTube, and other sites to listen to music, this seems like a simple solution to the film's only shortcoming. . its design
However, Missing doesn't work without strong characters, and thankfully, there are plenty of them in this story. Reed is a great hero who is understandably terrified of his mother's disappearance and will do anything to find her, no matter the police investigation or the danger to himself. Reed plays June, who has already lost her father and will do anything to make sure she doesn't lose her mother as well, which is something that definitely comes up throughout the show.
While we trusted June from the start, as this story progresses, we begin to look into Kevin Ken Leung's past and into Grace Nia Long's past. Once again, the story of Ohanian and Chaganti leads the audience to believe that the mysterious monsters could be or what they say they are. The script and these performances create a precise balance that instantly changes our attachments and likes.
But perhaps the most pleasant surprise of this casting was JoaquÃn de Almeida as Javier Ramos, June's Colombian husband. Almeida is best known for his villainous roles in 24 and Furious 5, but here he's a likeable sidekick and a much-needed outburst of goodwill in a film where everyone seems to have their own ulterior motives.
Faltan may not have the thrill of originality that Searching had when it came out five years ago (not even a couple of years after Unfriended , in fact), but Missing shows just how vulnerable and exciting the direction of such stories can be. Structurally, Vermis may seem like a bit too much of a quest , as it sometimes is, but it eventually finds its way into this interesting way of telling the mystery. As these films show, the web is full of secrets and possibilities, so we hope there will be more such hidden stories.
Rating: B
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