As a result, although the pre-production part of the actors only took 14 days, the post-production took up to 3 years. But compared to the third viewing angle, which is more commonly used in other films, this novel way will give audiences a sense of prying into other people's secrets. The whole story begins with a familiar Windows computer desktop. A series of videos played on the computer showed us a happy family of three, husband David, wife Papa, and their lovely daughter Marg.
Margo liked the piano since childhood and grew up happily in the company of her mother. But just as Margo was about to enter high school, something unfortunate happened. His wife, the Papa, was diagnosed with cancer and died soon after. Two years later, with only father David and daughter Marg left, everything seems to be back on track. But on such an ordinary day, David could no longer contact his daughter, and Marg disappeared. To find his daughter's whereabouts, David opened the laptop left by his daughter on the desktop. By looking up his daughter's past Internet and social records, David discovered her daughter's amazing secret, and the story reversed time and time again. The interlocking ups and downs of the story content made me have to marvel at the meticulous logic of the screenwriter in the process of watching this movie. In addition to the unexpected reversal, it also made a father feel the affection a father in the process of finding his daughter. The day before Margo disappeared, David recalled that his daughter went to school in the morning and practiced the piano in the evening as usual. But when he woke up in the morning, David found that the garbage from a few days ago had not been taken out, so he called to remind Margo to go home and remember to take out the garbage.
Margo said that he had a biology exam next week and that he was going to review at the house of his classmate "curly-haired girl" today, so he would be back late, and then hurriedly hung up his father's phone. After the death of their mother Papa, both David and Margo seem to have come out of their grief and returned to their normal lives. In the early hours of the night, Margo called David several times, but David, who was sleeping at this time, didn't know it. When David got up early and saw several missed calls, no matter how many text messages he sent to Margo and how many calls he made, no one answered. At first, David thought Margo was going to learn the piano, but the piano teacher said that Margo had withdrawn from her piano lessons as early as 6 months ago. Not only was David unaware, but he also gave Margo $100 a week for piano tuition. Officer Vic, who was in charge of the investigation of "Margo's disappearance", reminded David that he could ask Margo's friends to see if there were any relevant clues. At this time, David found that he had absolutely no idea who his daughter often interacted with and what friends he had around him. He didn't know much about his daughter's life.
David remembered his daughter left at the dinner table on the laptop. After trying to enter his wife's Papa's birthday, David managed to open Margo's laptop and start contacting Margo's Facebook friends. But in the process of communicating with these people, David found that although his daughter has a lot of contacts on Facebook, her daughter's popularity at school is not good. Everyone thinks that Margo is a very withdrawn person, and he doesn't like to interact with everyone very much, and he always eats alone every day. David was shocked because, in his heart, his daughter was always the same as when she was a child, lively, cheerful, lovable, and a socialist. Further investigation by Officer Vic revealed that Margo was likely to have run away from home and was involved in drug dealing. This completely subverts Margo's image in David's mind. Although he gets along with his daughter every day, David, as a father, seems to have never really entered Margo's life. He doesn't know his daughter's true state at school, and he is unaware of Margo's changes. If a father just manages his child's daily routine in daily life, for example, David puts money on the table for piano lessons every week but doesn't communicate with Margo, then this is different from a father. Is there any essential difference between babysitters?
The responsibility of parents to their children is not limited to this. A competent parent needs to always pay attention to the subtle changes in the child's growth process. Reversal 2: Live broadcast to strangers and use marijuana to relieve pain, but he couldn't let go of his mother's death. David checked the list of websites that his daughter frequently visited. In addition to Facebook and Instagram, he found that Margo often logged on to a website called "You” a live broadcast platform. Like our domestic live broadcast platform, you can live broadcast online on "You", and netizens can watch and interact with the anchor's comments in real-time. David found that in addition to sharing his daily life at school, Margo often mentioned his late mother, Pa, and frequently interacted with a person nicknamed "Fish and Chips" during the live broadcast.
"Fish and Chips," told Margo that her mother also had cancer and is now being treated in the hospital. She had to go out to work in a restaurant due to her family's distress. Margo was very sympathetic to her and often asked about her mother's condition in the air. At the same time, in the process of looking through his daughter's chat records, David unexpectedly found that Margo and Uncle Pete had a close relationship, and the two often exchanged seemingly ambiguous text messages in the middle of the night. His good brother, Marg's good uncle, actually had an affair with his daughter. An angry David rushed to Pete's house, forced Pete to know Margo's whereabouts, and questioned the relationship between the two. It's not that Pete and Margo have an improper relationship, it's that their mother, Papa After his death, his father David was not good at words and did not know how to comfort his daughter, and Marg also knew that his father suffered from depression because of excessive sadness. Margo, who also misses her mother painfully but has no one to talk to, has no choice but to turn to her only relative besides David, Uncle Pete.
And Margo and Pete sent text messages in the evening, but because Margo found that Pete occasionally smoked marijuana, he also wanted to try it to numb himself to relieve the pain of missing his mother. Pete tells David that Margo gave up piano lessons because of Papa. Because Margo has been learning the piano with her mother since she was a child, after the death of Papa, she practiced the piano alone and recalled her beloved mother every time, so she decided to give up the piano. David always thought that two years later, Margo had let go of Papa's departure, because Margo had never shown his thoughts about his mother in front of him, and was unwilling to tell his father how much torture it was to practice the piano. Just bear everything in silence. She can only express her thoughts about her mother to strangers in the live broadcast, and even choose to use marijuana for temporary happiness. To avoid touching on the sad past, David himself never mentioned Papa to his daughter during this period, as if everything had never happened. But unexpectedly, Margo has been thinking about Papa all the time, and even the computer desktop is still a photo taken with her mother. As a father, David not only did not pay attention to Margo's social network but also neglected Margo's mental health. Mothers always play an important role in the growth of a child, and the death of a mother is a major psychological trauma to a child.
David himself suffered from depression because of this, let alone a minor child-like Marg? David simply thought that this kind of pain could gradually fade away just by the passage of time and the changes of the years, but he didn't expect that after a long time, it would become a scar that Margo could never touch. Reversal 3: The real murderer is always in front of you, and the mother tries to cover the sky to save her son. There is also an important role in the film, that is, the police officer Vic who has been assisting David in finding the whereabouts of Margo. Although David found a lot of clues related to Margo's disappearance when looking for clues about his daughter's Internet access, such as the "fish and chips" in the live broadcast, such as Lake Barboza, which his daughter often drove to, all these clues were Denied by Officer Vic.
Officer Vic told David that he had investigated Fish and Chips, which had not left the restaurant on the day Margo disappeared. On the shore of Lake Barboza, although David found Margo's keychain, under the search led by Officer Vic, Margo's body was never found except in Margo's car that had sunk to the bottom of the lake. . When the police searched for Margo's whereabouts was unsuccessful, a man who had been imprisoned but was released publicly admitted on the Internet that he was the murderer, and killed Margo brutally in his car. But after the man uploaded the video of himself surrendering, he committed suicide. Although Marg's body has not yet been found, David, who faced the news, had to accept the reality that his daughter had left him with grief. But just when he was about to upload a condolence video for Margo on the Internet, he unexpectedly found that the avatar of "Fish and Chips" was not a real person, but just a photo of an Internet celebrity downloaded by the user from the Internet.
When in doubt, he called Officer Vic's police station but unexpectedly learned that Officer Vic, who had been eager to help him, was not assigned by his superiors to accept the case, but was very proactive. David further followed Officer Vic's website and was shocked to find that the murderer who admitted to killing his daughter was a former criminal who was rehabilitated in the drug rehabilitation center that Officer Vic was in charge of. It turned out that the real murderer was always in front of his eyes. "Fish and Chips" was disguised by Officer Vic's son Robert. He had a crush on Margo since he was a child. He accidentally saw Margo on the live broadcast website. To get close to Margo, he pretended to be the same as Margo's mother. cancer. But he never imagined that the kind-hearted Margo believed him, and transferred the piano fee his father gave him every week to "Fish and Chips" for treatment. Robert, with a disturbed conscience, decided to follow Margo in the car that night, explain it to her face to face, and return the money. Margo can't accept that he has been deceived, and the two argue in the dark. Robert misses and pushes Margo off a cliff during the chaos. Panicked, Robert turned to his mother Vic for help.
She was eager to love her son and worried that once his son was sentenced, his life would be ruined, so he decided to take advantage of his position as sheriff to cover up the sky, conceal the crime, and find a scapegoat. And Robert, who heard that his mother would solve it for him, did not feel any guilt, and even updated the content on his social account within 24 hours after Margo's accident, calmly not like a murderer. In fact, at the beginning of the film, the director hinted at the murderer to us. Because when David and Officer Vic communicated for the first time, Officer Vic shared with David his experience of helping his erring son lie in front of his neighbors. Would you sigh that this is the greatness of a mother's love? No, this is an overprotective love, a deformed love. Deformed enough to cover up all the faults of the child, conceal the murder for him, and even sacrifice the happiness of another family. Margo was finally rescued after being trapped on a cliff for eight days. David, who has gone through all this, also knows that his daughter Marg has not turned bad. She is still the loving, kind and lovely girl she used to be.
And David also knew that he had more responsibilities to care about Margo. From refusing to talk about Papa's death with Margo before, to be willing to open up with his daughter, the two worked together to overcome the pain caused by Papa's death. . Margo also dropped everything and trusted her father more. At the end of the film, we are happy to see that Margo changed his computer desktop from a photo with his mother to a photo with David. Based on the way parents love their children in "The Internet Lost", let me talk about some inspirations for my family's parent-child relationship in real life: In the film, we see two families, two parents, with completely different ways of getting along with their children. Although David cared about Margo very much, the father and daughter were always at a distance, and David had no idea about Margo's daily life and thoughts. Officer Vic also loves her son so much, that we see her writing on her Facebook page: "There is nothing like a mother's love for her child". Even when their children make mistakes, they would do anything to protect them.
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