A social media influencer as the hero of a bleak thriller? Who didn't see this one coming? And so we have Search Out, Kwak Jung's bizarre, feel-good mystery about an internet do-gooder (Kim Sung-cheol) who lives nextdoor to a suicide victim whom he might've helped but didn't. Except it's not a suicide. Our hero knows that. So does his best-buddy/morale-booster (Lee Si-eon). What they don't know is the insanity they're about to release by making the murder public.
The key to their success is the moonlighting, ultracool tech wizard (Heo Ga-yoon, formerly of the girl group 4Minute) who quickly uncovers they've got a serial killer on their hands. And not just any serial killer but one who uses psychological control to drive people on a social networking servie to kill themselves. Interestingly, the movie posits that the truest friendships emerge in real time and a shared physical space and not online at all. One of them is probably going to get badly hurt, and while you know which one, it's scary nevertheless. Who's evil? The cops, fast food corporations, the medical establishment... Thankfully, those who study hard survive.
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