Ingrid Goes West a.k.a. First World Problems. The director Matt Spicer puts Aubrey Plaza playing Ingrid Thorburn, a person with high boundary issues and with an incapability of establishing and maintaining healthy relations with other people. This movie is about Ingrid trying, in her own faulty way, to start her life over after she discovered Taylor Sloane (Elizabeth Olsen) on social media. It's well portrayed the impact that social media brought to our day to day life, as well as some good and some bad consequences of this event.
I personally loved Ingrid. I could feel the anxiety and desperation of her actions, like she had no other way of people paying attention and liking her. She truly believed she had to change, adapt and agree in order to matter to the people she believed mattered. Aubrey Plaza does a terrific job demonstrating all those feelings.
Even after all the development of Ingrid's character, I still couldn't find an answer to why she was the way she was. If it was some trauma from her past, if she just didn't know how else to be. But, in the big picture, it didn't truly matter.
More towards the end of the movie, I felt that some of the scenes seemed kind of forced to develop the correct plot towards the intended ending, to which I have mix feelings. I had no expectations for the ending, but I kind of expected something else.
On an even more personal note, I loved all the Batman references.
The combination of social media and stalking behavior is a good one, and they deliver it perfectly. Interesting 98 minutes of movie, deserves a 7 out of 10.
I personally loved Ingrid. I could feel the anxiety and desperation of her actions, like she had no other way of people paying attention and liking her. She truly believed she had to change, adapt and agree in order to matter to the people she believed mattered. Aubrey Plaza does a terrific job demonstrating all those feelings.
Even after all the development of Ingrid's character, I still couldn't find an answer to why she was the way she was. If it was some trauma from her past, if she just didn't know how else to be. But, in the big picture, it didn't truly matter.
More towards the end of the movie, I felt that some of the scenes seemed kind of forced to develop the correct plot towards the intended ending, to which I have mix feelings. I had no expectations for the ending, but I kind of expected something else.
On an even more personal note, I loved all the Batman references.
The combination of social media and stalking behavior is a good one, and they deliver it perfectly. Interesting 98 minutes of movie, deserves a 7 out of 10.