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In 1999, a sleeper hit like The Blair Witch Project spawned a genre that continues to act as a wellspring for brilliant DIY cinema: found-footage horror. Indian-American filmmaker Aneesh Chaganty has given this a much-needed millennial twist in his fantastic debut film, Searching.
The entire movie, about a father, David Kim (John Cho), searching for his missing 16-year-old daughter, Margot (Michelle La), is narrated completely through a plethora of modern-day communication media: FaceTime, MacBook screens, vlogs, live streaming from TV channels’ websites.
Chaganty has made a movie that exemplifies the social media zeitgeist. He starts off beautifully with a Windows
