Floated2 Ingrid Goes West is another comedy/drama lead by Aubrey Plaza. It's unfortuanate that many of her leading roles are flopping at the box office despite her strong performances and her being praised by critics. This film, she plays her trypical character and it works as usual.This film feels as if it should have been bigger, as it would appeal to many young people and their love and interest for coming of age films around social media.Ingrid Goes West is constantly moving and interesting at each point, due to the performance and strong directing. It shows how social media can be a disease and that there really are people like the character Aubrey Plaza played in the film in today's day. The film makes sure to not go over board and as expected a dark turn within the final act occurs, as it should keeping the film intriguing.The ending is quite real and shows how much of an impact social media can have upon people in general. Highly recommend this film

Neil Welch After Ingrid Thorburn crashes a wedding and creates an ugly scene, she spends some time in a facility on medication. On her release she uses her inheritance from her recently deceased mother to relocate to California where she cyberstalks minor Instagram celebrity Taylor Sloane. She steals Taylor's dog in order to gain an introduction by having "found it" - she has modelled herself by reference to Taylor's postings by now. Her obsession grows up to the point where Taylor's brother may have found her out.The trailer gives the impression that this is a comedy. There are some amusing moments, but this is more disturbing than funny.On one level, this is a salutary comment on the inadvisability of living your life via social media, the artificiality of online personae, and the shallowness and glibness of online status updates. The fashion for posting photographs of your meals, "profound" epigrams, social climbing via status - all are targeted in passing.On another level, though, this is a portrait of a very disturbed, and disturbing young woman. She is someone who is unable to live her life other than by reference to someone else, is in denial about that fact, and doesn't understand why she is doing it anyway.I like Aubrey Plaza who plays Ingrid, and produced this film. Her previous comedic work gives little indication of her ability to play a character like Ingrid: repellent, attractive, just a little bit off in her interactions with the world, and terribly, terribly sad. She is terrific in this. Elizabeth Olsen plays the rather thankless part of Taylor, superficially nice and attractive, but actually shallow, selfish and insensitive and, ultimately, a good deal less likeable than Ingrid.The only character who comes out really sympathetically is Ingrid's landlord Dan (O'Shea Jackson Jr) who, apart from an unusual (but, in my view, wholly understandable) preoccupation with Batman, is a genuinely nice person.Based on the trailer, I expected to like this as it was going along rather more than I did. However, it left a far greater impression on me than I expected.

jabberwocky799 I found this movie on Hulu and normally I don't bother too often with "straight to DVD" titles but I have a soft spot for both Aubrey Plaza and things written in neon. Watching this movie for the first time, I really had no idea what was going to happen, was Ingrid going to kill Taylor and take her place? Would she try to convince Taylor's loved ones that Ingrid was in fact Taylor? I was pleasantly surprised with the outcome overall. Very nice cinematography and set design, reminiscent of Neon Demon, Drive or San Junipero. The soundtrack was also another great part of this movie. Those portrayed as social media icons may be a bit over the top but I think they embody what social media personalities are. Great movie that shows the downfall of a stalker. Also just as an aside, I'm actually very happy she didn't die in the end, it was a predictable ending to begin with but I'm glad she was saved after all.

jadavix "Ingrid Goes West" is a kind of comedy thriller for the 2010's, a movie that could have easily been a successor to "Single White Female" but is more interested in satire than thrills.Ingrid Thorburn is a mentally ill woman who is obsessed with social media "stars". You know the type: people who are famous for nothing more than broadcasting every aspect of their lives on sites like Facebook and Instagram. When we first meet Ingrid, she attacks a woman whose wedding she crashes, leading us to assume that they were once close friends. We soon realise that they had never met in person; Ingrid believes "likes" on Facebook are a superior substitute for real-world friendship.One of the troubling things "Ingrid Goes West" makes us realise is that it is understandable to believe that. The social media "influencer" Ingrid becomes obsessed with is able to extensively curate her life - or the image of it she makes available to people. When we meet her, we notice all is not as perfect as it is made to seem. We see items as they are made to appear online, but we can now also see the space around them. Taylor, the "influencer", is married to the exact kind of husband you would expect such a person to have - with his man-bun and beard - and yet, after some drinks, reveals he is not quite happy, and we see that Taylor co-opts his interests just as Ingrid co-opts hers.This is another observation the film has: perhaps one must be empty to succeed at celebrity in this day and age. Does this explain those pretend-celebrities, whose names you all know (I'm not going to type them here), people who are famous for reasons no one seems to comprehend?Back in the day people got famous for talents, deeds, or looks. But if you're the world's greatest guitar player, what about all those people who don't like the way guitars sound? If you're a good looking brunette, what about all those people who prefer blondes? Being famous for nothing puts nothing in between you and your "followers". If some people don't like the current you, you can try something else for the next Instagram post; maybe that will hook them.The older generation wants to know how they got airtime in the first place. The younger generation doesn't care: they just want to know what they had for dinner.