"Searching: It pays to know your daughter's password"

"Searching: It pays to know your daughter's password"

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr.MD

Plot:

A Father finds himself in a desperate attempt to find his daughter after she does not come home from a study session.

In a race against time he must trace back the actions that his own daughter took using social media and other applications that she was one. 

The Good:

The story is pretty much told by a computer screen and it is quite creative that the story of how the family started with one profile on a computer then ends up with just the Father and daughter after the mother dies of cancer.

Shown through video clips , google searches and profile pages one bit of a time. And I guess a lot of people could relate to this content as more and more stories can be gleaned by the things on one computer.

There is also a lot of foreshadowing used in these pages.One that gave me a sick pleasure of noticing and gave me the right answer to the question: Is Megan Alive?"

The Bad:

Debra Messing plays a serious role her as a Detective who volunteers for the investigation in the hopes that she could cover up the sin of her son. While I understand the mothers love part she still became the baddie of this particular film.

The Ugly:

Social Media. And People who have no idea of what the hell they are saying.

There was a scene when the news broke out of Meghan's disappearance of people blaming the father because "This kind of thing starts at home". Some even produced a meme of the Dad as Father of the year in sarcastic comment that he could just let his only daughter go missing.

Then there are those pathetic attention seeking types who all of a sudden hold , Prayer Vigils , Cry on Vlogs that Meghan is their best friend and those who join in the search for her "Because it seemed like the right thing to do." All for the likes and approval of others on social media. They do not do it out of the goodness of their own hearts but to increase their stock in social media goodness. The proof of this is that when they are asked about Meghan earlier in the film they all go  "She is not really my friend" or "I don't really know her that well."

Conclusion:

Searching is a unique movie with a wonderful presentation that has a great pace as all of the clues are pieced together to finally find what the father was searching for.