Visit redwebpod.com to get this full episode of Movie Club, our exclusive podcast exploring movies from classic to crap. On this week's episode of Movie Club, we're back in the world of horror as we tackle the found footage movie Unfriended. Sensitive topics: suicide, cyber bullying, racist slurs, homophobic slurs, sexual assault, drug use "Awkward Meeting", "Crypto", "Echoes of Time v2", "Redletter", "Stay the Course" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is the movie being discussed?
Hey, this is Jillian. Here is a little preview of our episode of Movie Club on the movie Unfriended. We ended up liking this movie a lot more than we expected. This movie surprised me, so I hope you check it out. We start on LiveLeak, classic old internet.
Immediately you know you're in early 2010s.
You know where you are and it feels so, it's like, oh my God. Our protagonist Blair is watching the suicide of someone named Laura Barnes. And, um... clicks on the video, clicks on the link to the video of what is said to have caused her suicide.
Chapter 2: What themes are explored in Unfriended?
We later discovered that someone filmed her getting really drunk and passing out and getting into a really embarrassing situation, for lack of a better way to describe that. Blair's boyfriend Mitch calls and they do a little bit of cyber flirting before they accidentally somehow end up in a call with their friends, Ken, Jess, and Adam. These kids are crazy. I also often forgot that they were kids.
I don't know. Sometimes the actors just didn't look like children to me. At least Blair.
Chapter 3: How do the characters react to Laura's suicide?
I could see that.
And then when it was like, I have a test tumor. I was like, oh, they're children. These are babies. Yeah.
Chapter 4: What makes the characters seem believable?
I could see that. Jess and Mitch probably look the most believable as high schoolers.
Yes, I agree. That hair.
Chapter 5: How does the Skype call change the dynamic?
Yeah, the hair. Also, for all the Dropout fans, Ken is played by Jacob Wyzaki, which I did not remember when I rewatched this. Oh. If you're a fan of any of the Dropout content, he's in that a lot. Yep, yeah.
Yeah.
uh i i don't i don't i've not seen that but when he says here's my ken pinion i was like oh my god oh no too much this is awesome but yeah so for some reason an unknown individual is in their skype call they can't remove this person and they they try to restart the call multiple times eventually they just give up and just let this person be in their call
At the same time, Mitch and Blair receive Facebook messages from Laura's account, the girl who ended her life, and they assume that she's hacked. The anonymous person starts typing in Skype chat. Yeah, this is all on Skype, by the way, so...
And that's why I think everybody, or at least I, expected this movie to be trash as the whole movie is told from this perspective, for lack of a better word, of the computer screen.
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Chapter 6: What is the significance of the computer screen perspective?
You know, you're seeing... Yeah, I forgot to mention, we're just looking at her computer screen.
It's a big old gimmick. You're just watching the screen of the call and her on the internet and on Spotify, which also did a great job of setting the time of the old Spotify design with it being gray.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, I saw that. I was like, oh, my God. I listen to Spotify all the time. I forgot it used to look like that.
I got so mad because I was like, she keeps clicking reply in the Facebook messages and there's a button right next to it that says enter to send message. And I'm like, for the love of God, dude. Oh, my God.
Whenever she'd copy and paste, she'd right-click, hit copy, and then right-click, hit paste. I'm like, come on, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, come on.
You know, Blair. I understand for the movie, but for the sake of my mind, I was getting... Oh, yeah.
I'm sure everybody at this point knows, right? That's the way to go. That's how you do it. I did appreciate the, like...
world building or character building, I suppose, of the gimmick. Because yeah, you know, you're seeing her on her Facebook and you can see like her message history with different Facebook friends. You can see the other characters pop up as she's scrolling through Facebook. You can see in her tabs, she's got a Forever 21 tab open, a Tumblr tab, MTV's Teen Wolf. Throwbacks, dude.
I mean, yeah, it was such a great job. Like, oh, I feel like I'm looking at the desktop of a high school girl in year 2013.
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