It’s hard to describe someone as a “luddite” when their profession literally involves photoshop, and yet the synopsis of People You May Know boldly do just that to their lead character, Jed. Jed simply isn’t interested in social media. But a stranger in a bar tells him she’d never date someone she couldn’t Google, so he throws all of his values and deeply held beliefs out the window and we’re treated to a tension-filled scene in which he hovers his cursor over the sign-up button of several social media sites. The next day he proudly tells a millennial in a coffee shop that he’s on Facebook and she welcomes him to the future. Already I’m cringing: a film about social media obsession doesn’t even know that Facebook is so 2008.
Jed puts his photoshop skills to good use and his friends are impressed by the 
glamourous lifestyle shots he’s faking. But the millennial offers to do for him what she does best – make people famous on social media. It’s weird that a guy who prided himself on “keeping things real” is now spreading lies and watching them go viral.
This movie stars people you don’t know – Nick Thune, Halston Sage, Kaily Smith Westbrook. They’re okay. None of them are charismatic enough to transcend the fact that they’re playing people who actually eat Hawaiian pizza. Don’t worry. The actors may not be heavy weights, but what is quite heavy is the handedness with which the message here is preached. Just be yourself, guys! Don’t compare yourself to others! Nobody is their real self on Facebook! But in the end they save the world with a hashtag. A hashtag! #truthfultuesday. Get with it.
Actually, the lesson learned is quite embarrassing. He forgets to photoshop his arms back in and his dirty little secret is revealed. Of course an angry mob of Instagrammers comes at him with pitchforks. It’s pretty cringe-worthy but the film doesn’t pause for one second to really consider these lives lived online. It’s very superficial, which in theory is what they’re yammering on about, but clearly have not internalized. Swipe left.
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Dziękuję – i tobie także!
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eeeek!
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Now there is a movie Tubularsock will never see. Thanks again, Jay for your clarity. It is always helpful.
Tubularsock has never even looked at Facebook. Tubularsock prefers getting his information about people using the NSA because you don’t have to be popular to get on their list.
Cheers.
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Ha. You make us all proud.
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Blergghh sounds like you’ve done us all a favour and watched this so we don’t have to!
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Thanks for the review. A good one to skip. 🙂
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I remember watching the trailer for it and thinking that it’s actually a nice concept, but your review totally turned me off from actually wanting to watch it. I guess I had hoped for less shallowness and some kind of actual message hahaha my bad.
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Oh dear … pass. 🙂
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You only have to be around teenagers to know what social media sites are “old”. I still don’t know what Kik is.
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This sounds like it would make a better Buzzfeed article than a movie.
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For sure!
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Sounds like an episode of Black Mirror from about 20 years ago!
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Hadn’t heard of this one before. Sounds like I’ll forget about it rather than watch it.
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