{"id":13452,"date":"2018-12-14T18:52:21","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T23:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=13452"},"modified":"2018-12-14T18:52:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T23:52:23","slug":"searching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/searching\/","title":{"rendered":"Searching"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;I didn&#8217;t know her. I didn&#8217;t know my daughter.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Searching<\/strong>, released in 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>David&#8217;s teenage daughter Margot goes missing. He gradually finds out she was not the person he thought she was. She&#8217;d stopped taking piano lessons, and she didn&#8217;t have any friends. He methodically contacts every acquaintance of hers on her computer and social media.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The entire movie only shows you things on computer screens, often webcam videos but also other things David is looking at. I don&#8217;t often watch movies with a big gimmick like this. But in this case they did it very well, plus the story they were telling leant itself to this particular gimmick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s completely gripping.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stars John Cho and Debra Messing. Directed by Aneesh Chaganty (his first movie).<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;I didn&#8217;t know her. I didn&#8217;t know my daughter.&#8221; Searching, released in 2018 David&#8217;s teenage daughter Margot goes missing. He gradually finds out she was not the person he thought she was. She&#8217;d stopped taking piano lessons, and she didn&#8217;t have any friends. He methodically contacts every acquaintance of hers on her computer and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15,6,5],"class_list":["post-13452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-drama","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13452"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13455,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13452\/revisions\/13455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}