Puerto Rico was a huge success, if your plan was to kill a lot of Puerto Ricans. | | | | "F*** pride. Pride only hurts, it never helps." Ving Rhames is Marsellus Wallace in "Pulp Fiction." (1994)
(Miramax) | | | | |  | “Puerto Rico was a huge success, if your plan was to kill a lot of Puerto Ricans.”
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| | rantnrave:// I missed SUNDANCE for the first time in 15 years last year and thus I missed the new thriller SEARCHING. The story of a father trying to find his missing daughter with and without the police. The basic premise is one we've seen from movies before. But the execution is unique. Like it or not, much of our lives are spent staring at screens. A computer. A TV. A phone. A tablet. A monitor. Even when we're with other people. Even when we're with the people we love. And that fact breeds distance. What connection do we have? What do we really know about them? Is what their sharing the full story of their lives? And what does it mean to parent these days when our kids are buried in those screens. What life are they living that you don't know about? And when we find out, how do we feel? What is our guilt? What would we do to protect them? How often do we interact with them outside of those screens? The film is cleverly shown only through those media interfaces. The software, videos, chats, cameras, and calls we interact with every day. Films like JFK or MAN ON FIRE told stories in new visual ways. They had big stars and big budgets. This did not but it is unique. Often when we see computer interfaces in film, they are exaggerated or completely fake user experiences. But all the frames here are familiar to your day to day. I can't recall one regular camera shot in the entire film. JOHN CHO and DEBRA MESSING are great as the father and the detective, but the real star is the presentation. Director ANEESH CHAGANTY and his team deserve a standing ovation for making such a complex visual production look so smooth and seamless. It's not a gimmick, it's a triumph. Would love to meet the director if anyone knows him. It's a film about love, loss, parenting, sleuthing, family, crime, distance, paranoia, gossip, trolls, accusations, digital identity, news sensationalism, connection, and exploitation. It's out now. Shutdown and go see it... BREAKING NEWS: "Second Anonymous Op-Ed by Senior WH Official Published "... Happy Birthday to KIRK IWANOWSKI, LAUREN COHEN STARR, and PAUL HYLAND. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | Pitchfork |
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 | TechCrunch |
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 | Vanity Fair |
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 | Forbes |
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 | BREAKER |
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 | The New Yorker |
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 | Vox |
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 | Business Insider |
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 | Quartz |
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