Ingrid Goes West (2. IMDb. You laugh in uncomfortable familiarity and experience touching compassion in one of the year's best and darkest movies. Aubrey Plaza and Elizabeth Olsen are stark, fearless, and human frailty in this cautionary tale of the darker obsession of social media.

Matt Spicer's cautionary black comedy about the perils of the Instagram age, Ingrid Goes West, also stars Elisabeth Olsen and O'Shea Jackson Jr. Baywatch Full Movie (2017) Online Watch and Download Free. Cult Comedy Movies The Adventurers Movie (2017) there. Baywatch is a 2017 American action comedy film directed by Seth Gordon.

There are no great heroes in Director and Writer Matt Spicer's . There are a lot of the people we know. Aubrey Plaza plays the lonely disturbed Instagram stalker Ingrid Thorburn, who methodically insinuates her way into the life of Social Media . Taylor is famous for being essentially famous, with 1 million followers. Ingrid actually moves to Los Angeles using her inheritance of $6. Mother, when she discovers that Taylor lives in Venice, California. She wants to friend the object of her obsession, confusing .

This may be the cautionary tale of having the . Spicer and co- writer David Branson Smith evoke brazen humor and explore perhaps the darker side of desperation and wanting to be loved. No one is likable in . But we have empathy for Ingrid's suffering. Plaza's Ingrid is social pariah, and seems both sociopath and psychopath. Plaza is so bold as Ingrid lies to others, and displays total disregard for right and wrong. Ingrid has little remorse for her actions, and less compassion for others.

In the opening scene, Ingrid pepper sprays Charlotte, played by pretty Meredith Hagner, for not inviting Ingrid to her wedding. Turns out that Ingrid was only a . As a result Ingrid is sentenced to a psychiatric rehabilitation facility. After serving her time she is released to go home. Ingrid discovers her new object of obsession in Taylor (Olsen). So Ingrid goes west to be with her.

Out west, Ingrid rents a house in Venice from Dan, played by charismatic O'Shea Jackson Jr. Dan might be her one true ally, may be even become a friend. Dan is a coke head, landlord, and aspiring screenwriter with a new . At least Dan has a hero, unlike anyone else in the movie. Ingrid and Taylor's superfluous friendship eventually flames out. In catharsis at Taylor's desert home, both confront each other's lies and inauthenticy. Taylor says, . We laugh hysterically at the inane exchanges and selfish action of both Ingrid and Taylor.

But as sincerely embodied by Plaza, Ingrid needs help. Plaza captures the quiet desperation and loneliness of the girl, who simply wants to be loved, yet has no idea how to do so. Plaza is compelling in Ingrid's fear just to be herself. Spicer poignantly displays the profound depth of shallowness in the life of Taylor and those closest to her. To that end Elizabeth Olsen is amazing. There is the scene as her Taylor confesses her dream for buying the house next door to Ingrid.

Ingrid Goes West movie info - movie times, trailers, reviews, tickets, actors and more on Fandango. Watch the Ingrid Goes West Trailer (2017). Ingrid Thorburn (Aubrey Plaza) is obsessed with social media and the people who attract huge amounts. In Ingrid Goes West, Plaza plays a crazed social media stalker who moves to Los Angeles to befriend her Instagram obsession Taylor Sloane (Olsen). On Thursday night, the actresses hit the red carpet at the Hollywood premiere of their movie, Ingrid Goes West, in the same style. Plaza and Olsen, 28, both stepped.

Olsen plays it straight up, with subtle mesmerizing awareness. I think this is Spicer's commentary on the whole vapid nature of social media obsession, where the surface trumps all else. In the brilliant pool scene Taylor's distraught husband Ezra, played by vulnerable Wyatt Russell, tells Ingrid how everything on Taylor's Instagram posts are . Obviously, not everything can be . But we get the clue that neither is Taylor or his marriage. Conflict arises when Taylor's painfully shallow brother Nicky, played by whimsical Billy Magnussen, outs Ingrid as Taylor's social media stalker.

Spicer and Smith's narrative turn is somewhat contrived here, yet leads to both the touching and ironic. Villa Capri (2017) Theater Movie. Near the end, Plaza is heartbreaking as Ingrid records her selfie video. She does horrible things to people. She suffers, is lonely, and can't love herself. No, she is not perfect.

She is human. Perhaps, that is the morale of . We should all have compassion for others, because we really don't know what's going on inside. The darker side of humanity is still humanity.