Saturday, May 15, 2021

#Follow Me (2019)

Sophie has 2 million followers on YouTube which is surprising after you see her videos.  She asks two friends to fly to America with her and travel from Los Angeles to San Francisco, where she is supposed to do a meet and greet with her fans. 

The annoying threesome present a most unlikeable group. You wouldn’t want to sit near them on a plane or in a restaurant. They repeatedly call each other babe, play it up for the camera, and spend their time looking at themselves through their phones or cameras.  They are all about appearance and projecting an image rather than enjoying the moment or being real.  

Sophie films everything and apologizes to her fans for not posting for a few weeks. Apparently Sophie is famous for doing nothing other than posting a curated life in an attempt to seem relevant. There’s nothing special about Sophie or her friends, but don’t say that to them or they’ll think you’re rude.

They must have money since they’ve rented a house in the Hollywood Hills for one night. The next day when they start driving to San Fran, things get weird. There’s a vaguely threatening note on their car. They get a flat tire and have a run in with a creepy guy at a gas station, who they also see later that night at a restaurant across from their motel. There is also a threatening note left outside their hotel door.  Plus Lisa’s lost phone shows up containing photos and videos of the group at every place they’ve been. So they know someone is following them.

To reach the point where there is a legitimate reason for them to think harm is at hand, you need to watch over an hour of irritating behavior in what is essentially home videos. And when it’s time to protect themselves, they do the stupidest things ever. Even though they are worried about their safety, Lisa steps outside the motel room because she hears noises outside and it’s too dark to see out the windows.  When they find the phone and are alarmed someone is following them, they leave the door open to their room. When they know for sure someone is trying to kill them, they sneak out of the room bu then run screaming at the top of their lungs to the car. Oh my god women, if you want to get away from a killer, don’t scream bloody murder. He’ll know where you are. Lastly they don’t stop  filming. For some reason they think the camera is a lifeline, but calling 911 would have been far more helpful.  We know they have reception because they were looking at their timeline on social media.  

No pay off to who was doing it or why, or how Sophie could ever possibly have 2 million followers. There was nothing interesting about her.


Ridiculous dialogue

This just literally can’t get any worse. (Said right before things literally get so much worse)

Don’t stop filming whatever you do. That camera is our fucking life line. (They should be calling 911 not filming>




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