Technological Innovation In Movies – The Searching, Probably One of the Most Innovative Movie of the year.

As we all know that movies engage, inspire and teach. It’s very much logical to illustrate innovation with films because nearly every movie is a transformative story that roughly parallels the innovation process. Screenwriters are taught to write stories where the plot emphasizes the transformational change in an active visual way. Directors love scripts with scenes that show how change happens since it engages the audience in several ways — emotionally, visually, and with sound. As far as the concept of innovation is concerned, appropriate movies are a refreshing alternative to dry case studies, PowerPoint slide dumps, or lectures.

With technological innovation in mind, Sony has recently released a trailer for movie Searching, one of the year’s most innovative thrillers and easily one of the outstanding films of 2018 so far. The movie unfolds entirely across computer and cell phone screens, searching takes the form to a whole new level and delivers a mysterious, compelling story that hooks audiences from the opening seconds and doesn’t let go.

The movie regularly moves around the frame, pushing in on certain areas to reveal clues or to draw the audience’s eye to an important piece of information. The director of the movie even created a new position for this editor called “Director of screen photography”, to represent the fact that they did so much more work on the movie than simply cutting from one shot to the next. We suggest you all to grab as many people as you can – family, friends, anyone – and go see Searching in a huge group, because it would be a shame if such a brilliantly-executed movie fell through the cracks this summer. Trust me, you’re going to want to see this.

Review of the movie

You might think that watching a story play out across screens might put you at a distance from the events being depicted, and perhaps that’d be the case if the film were in less capable hands. But there are plenty of legitimately moving moments here, as well as scenes of suspense that had put up against just about anything else. (A live-stream is stopped due to buffering at precisely the right instant for maximum effectiveness, a tactic that’s thankfully only used once.) The movie, its story, and character delivers a personal, heart-wrenching performance of actor john cho, whose desperation becomes more intense with every passing minute.

The Synopsis

Theoretically, it’s like any other missing child thriller that most of us might have seen in films like taken, recent prisoner etc., but the challenge it has set for itself is to tell its story entirely from within computer screen – laptops, smartphones and cctvs. After David Kim (John Cho)’s 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a local investigation is opened and a detective is assigned to the case. But 37 hours later and without a single lead, David decides to search the one place no one has looked yet, where all secrets are kept today: his daughter’s laptop. In a hyper-modern thriller told via the technology devices we use every day to communicate, David must trace his daughter’s digital footprints before she disappears forever. The movie scenes highlight the sense of helplessness: Thanks to bad luck and human error, not even the devices that connect us 24/7 can tell us everything we want to know

It explores the uncertain paradoxes of Internet technology — its power to inform and deceive, to connect and alienate. The story captures and defamiliarizes an experience that most of us would consider ordinary, even Predictable. At any moment in the movie, the audience will find himself or herself wondering at the low key accuracy of the production design or the ease with which a moving cursor can hold your attention – it doesn’t pay out in real time The story depicts decade of family life into a laughter-and-tears montage, composed from photos and videos stored on the lead actor’s desktop computer. We watch an actor and his wife happily raise their daughter.  The whole sequence may remind you of the deeply moving marriage-in-miniature sequence but this time with a distracting whiff of e-product placement.  

On one fine afternoon, David sends Margot a text message and reminding her to take out the trash and she promises to take care of it when she gets home but she never makes it home and David soon finds himself plunged into every parent’s worst nightmare. At any given moment in Searching, there are several tabs open on David’s laptop – which essentially functions as different shot options available for the director. The biggest challenge for the production team is to find new ways to grab the audience’s attention where the director wants it. So they have used the cursor and desktop alerts. Music is usually what’s playing on youtube, and essential exposition is delivered with the help of Google map.

With intent to support police investigation, David begins searching Margot’s laptop for clues to her disappearance and he pores over Margot’s email and social media accounts (a string of password resets is one of many puzzles that need solving), calls up her facebook contacts and tries to piece together her last known whereabouts.

The Heart of Movie

The heart of the investigation and the movie is a collection of old live-cast videos that Margot had recorded and saved. Watching them for the first time, David begins to appreciate how much he didn’t know about his daughter and how lonely she had become after the death of her mother.

In these moments, “Searching” poignantly explores both the comfort and the isolation that technology can breed, even as it considers the lasting effects of grief. It also satirizes the ways in which that grief can be mocked and exploited, through mindless online gossip, sensationalist media coverage and the performative sympathy of onlookers who claim to have known Margot better than they did.

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