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Aug 11, 2017 · “Ingrid Goes West,” the new black comedy directed by Matt Spicer, starring Aubrey Plaza, is so insightful about this sub-culture, about its appeal but also about the traps of believing so fully in what is fictional. The film is very smart, most of all because it resists the urge to devolve into a sentimental redemption narrative.
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Led by strong performances from Aubrey Plaza and Elizabeth Olsen, Ingrid Goes West delivers smart, topical humor underlined by timely social observations. Read Critics Reviews
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Aug 10, 2017 · Matt Spicer’s debut feature introduces Ingrid (Aubrey Plaza) as an obsessive, dangerous app addict who crashes a wedding and pepper-sprays the bride, ostensibly for not inviting her. It turns ...
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Relevant, timely, and uncomfortably close to home, Ingrid Goes West delivers a quirky, fun, brutally awkward, legitimately unsettling cautionary tale about influencer culture and social media...
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By Alex Welch
Updated: Aug 10, 2017 12:08 am
Posted: Aug 10, 2017 12:03 am
We’re far enough into the social media age now for movies to start coming out about the dangers posed by our increasingly tech-reliant world. But while there’s more than enough compelling material to be mined from the subject, more often than not the films wind up feeling like after school specials, written by people who don’t or are either unwilling to acknowledge the appeal of the technology they’re condemning in the first place. Films like 2014’s Men, Women, & Children or this year’s The Circle have all proven how easy it is to fall into those pitfalls, no matter how talented the filmmakers or actors involved in the projects are.
That’s why writer and director Matt Spicer’s Ingrid Goes West proves to be one of the more successful cinematic looks at the social media generation. Not because it’s willing to just take a shot at modern day society, but that it feels like it was made by someone who understands the appeal of social media in the first place.
The opening scene of Ingrid Goes West - which involves Aubrey Plaza’s Ingrid spraying a bride with mace on her wedding day for not inviting her, despite having only ever conversed once on an Instagram comments section - doesn’t hesitate in introducing its themes of obsession and loneliness either. What follows is an increasingly uncomfortable spiral into madness and depression, as Ingrid is released from a mental hospital and quickly decides to move to California and “meet up” with an Instagram celebrity she follows, named Taylor Sloane (Elizabeth Olsen).
Ingrid Goes West is a searing, unforgiving, and surprisingly funny fable about a girl who expects selfies and Instagram posts with her favorite social media stars to fully supplement her own happiness. The film manages to look at its characters with empathy and understanding, while simultaneously refusing to endorse their actions. And because of th...
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Jan 21, 2017 · Film Review: ‘Ingrid Goes West’. That master of ambivalence, Aubrey Plaza plays a young woman so desperate for friends that she moves to L.A. to meet her Instagram idol. By Peter Debruge....
Ingrid Goes West is a drama that focuses on a young woman who has recently lost her mother and becomes obsessed with filling the void she has left behind by finding a best friend trough stalking trendy bloggers on Instagram.
