Ingrid Goes West

First off; I needed to watch this movie because of Aubrey Plaza even before I knew what the movie was about. I'm extremely biased because I would literally watch an entire movie with just her doing absolutely nothing. I just love her.
On to the movie. I really enjoyed it. Right of the bat it shows us a very unstable Ingrid who clearly has issues to work through yet I feel for her and that feeling only grows. Does that say something about me? The world we live in? Because this movie shows the brutal reality of how social media can be insanely toxic.
[spoiler] Ingrid becomes sort of this anti-hero due to her backstory (losing her mother or as she puts it 'her best friend' clearly caused deep trauma that sheds light on her actions), the characters she's surrounded herself with (especially Taylor whose toxic behavior only feed trauma that Ingrid is dealing with) and the way she seems to find genuine happiness and acceptance with Dan, struggling to balance that reality with the one she desperately wants with Taylor. [/spoiler]
[spoiler] The ending made me wonder if this turn of events is an actual positive thing for Ingrid. Initially I was happy that she survived and I already guessed things would be 'better' for her after her suicide attempt but then when her phone is handed back to her and she starts scrolling through the messages of love from her new 'fans' I thought that this is probably not better. The minute she wakes she asks for her phone, it's become the source of her troubles, a way to escape after her mother passed. Maybe it would be healthier for her if she had a break from her phone. Now she has all this influence, power if you will and it might create an even more toxic environment for her. [/spoiler]

Aubrey Plaza wase born to play a role like this.

Really solid film but the very ending disappointed massively for me. Kind of contradicts everything that came before it.

Surprisingly dark at its core but a very fun ride. Aubrey Plaza has been picking some pretty interesting projects lately.

1 / 2 directing & technical aspect
1 / 1 story
1 / 1 act I
1 / 1 act II
1 / 1 act III
1 / 1 acting
1 / 1 writing
0 / 1 originality
0 / 1 stays with you

+1 / 1 misc (each act gets better and shifts in tone)
-.5/ 1 misc (the very end [spoiler]that you can see coming a mile away, and that you hope goes a different direction since it would pretty much ruin the whole point of the movie[/spoiler])

7.5 out of 10

Plaza is great in this pathetic and tragic role. The rest of the cast shine too in their quirky yet human characters. The story is funny, but quite scarily real, and it shows that we should be putting focus more on these suicidal media's and the effect they can have.

This film really resonated with me in a way that a film never has.

Being a part of the millennial-social media obsessed generation, many outside of that generation don’t experience the addiction to social media that is abundant within many who use Instagram, Twitter or any other service. There is a sequence at the start of the film in which Ingrid (played brilliantly by Audrey Plaza) likes every single Instagram post until she reaches Elizabeth Olsen’s Taylor Sloane’s post. I personally have done this and I know of many other people that like every single post that they see. I’m glad the addiction to social media and the horribleness of it all is fully presented on the big screen.

I was the only person in my screen on a midday Saturday which is upsetting because I really hope this film gets more traction - it’s an important story that needs to be told. I’m glad that a great narrative hooked me along the way with some great characters by all actors involved and the ending is quite possibly one of my favourite endings of the year, suggesting the nature of social media in our society

Imagine a social network stalker, only 10 times worse in modern days. That's Ingrid. Plaza's performance on this one is another proof of her dark acting skills. The movie often goes into really dark places, which works excellent on the plot- yet the ending changes the atmosphere for worse.

Can't think of a better actress to play a stalker than Aubrey Plaza and she does a great job. O'Shea Jackson Jr. is fantastic. I really liked the message I thought they were trying to say about today's society. People post fake shit on the internet to try and get people to like them but no one really cares.

There's something so rare, and odd, but amazing about Aubrey Plaza as an actor. She never fails to intrigue me every time I see her in anything, and Ingrid Goes West is one of the examples of that.