Gist is one June Allen, embarks on a mission to locate her mother who mysteriously vanished while vacationing in Colombia with her new feller.The journey takes her through all the usual and not so usual twists and turns as she unravels the truth behind the truth type of shit.
Movie stars Storm Reid who I only know as Meg from A Wrinkle in Time, and Nia Long. Nia Long is one of those unmistakable actresses that I know and love, but when I look at her filmography it's a bunch of stuff I haven't seen. At least for the last 30 years or so.
There are also several “that guys” in Joaquim de Almeida who hasn't aged a day since I first saw him in Desperado, Ken Leung who is always the creepy Asian guy, and Amy Landecker who I see in stuff all the time but have trouble placing her for whatever reason. She reminds me of a cross between Jane Lynch and Amanda Peet. Also, June's dad, played by one Tim Griffin, looks exactly like Steve-O. It's distracting how much he looks like one of my favorite vegans (go team!).
The shocking twist at the halfway point was bananas. Completely changes the movie's direction. It gets completely nuts. So nuts at this midway point that you know some shit is really going to go off the rails in the third act, which it does. It ends up being a really sad, fucked up movie.
Learned a new word after watching this flick--”screenlife”. This is what you call a film that unfolds entirely through computer screens, tablets, smartphones, so forth. Some notable examples include Host, which is dope, Unfriended, and Searching (which is also great) with Harold from Harold and Kumar.
Funny little Easter egg is when the lead watches the Netflix special about the shit that goes down, the person who plays her is Jasmin Savoy Brown. On the one hand, of course she would play this girl in a fictionalized version. On the other, she is way to big at this point to do a reenactment on a true crime anthology.
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