Searching, a thriller that keeps you hooked to your seat staring at screen throughout the movie brings to us lot of suspense, mystery, crime and drama with human emotions at the heart of a brilliantly conceptualised story.
John Cho as David Kim plays the lead role as a single father whose teenage daughter Margot goes missing one night.
What sets this movie apart is the unique style of story telling with almost every shot playing on a computer screen, and phone - facetime video and yet it is all so real that viewers can completely relate to it.
The story is about father daughter relationship, in which the father who initially thinks he knew everything about his daughter gradually realises that he knew little. Margot, his daughter who misses her mother a lot, always pretends to be happy while talking to his dad. But when she goes missing, and his dad starts finding more about her social life, he finds out that she was very lonely in her life with no friends. She finds happiness on social media and photography. Like Black Mirror television series, this movie also brings to fore the dark side of web and social media. David, is determined to find his daughter and does not give up even after he is told his daughter might have run away. In an extremely thrilling turn of events, he manages to trace Margot and is able to reach a spot where her car is found. It is established that Margot has died and memorial service is planned, but David still continues to search and finally succeeds to find his daughter.
Debra Messing as detective Rosemary, plays a remarkably convincing role that makes the viewers believe in her professionalism as a detective. Both the main characters played by John Cho and Debra are very strong, although Cho steals the show.
The movie has a good gender balance in terms of roles, emotions, knowledge and skills. Almost 50% of the cast is female.
