I don’t really think this is a great film, as it has a copout ending that spoils the film for me. However, I’m noting it for Aubrey Plaza’s performance. She plays an obsessed stalker who latches onto an Instagram influencer (after having already served her sentence in a psychiatric hospital for stalking and attacking a previous influencer), and copies her look and worms her way into her life to be her best friend. Plaza acts a lot with her eyes, and she was so good at conveying the insecurity and desperation of her character to seem effortlessly cool and nonchalant, like in trying to write the “perfectly casual” comment on the influencer’s post, to dressing like her object of obsession, and having this pained look in her eyes of “please like me.”
Elizabeth Olsen was also spot on in adopting the L.A. vocal fry influencer voice where she tosses off everything as “the best” and acts both positive and condescending at the same time. Given that she mostly shines in indie dramas, and isn’t an improviser like Plaza is, it’s fun to watch her playing this vapid and airy character outside of more serious stuff like Martha Marcy May Marlene and Wind River. And while I know she’s famous from the Avengers movies too, I see her more as an indie drama actress first.
Again, I think it’s just a decent movie, but Plaza was fantastic in playing this character struggling with her mental health and dangerous obsession, and recommend it for her alone.
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