The Paws Report:

Searching  & Pepperment

Searching

Well, it's fall, and finally some interesting and fun movies have started to
come out, so I had to do 2 movies this week.  I started with Searching.  I had read about this flick and also heard a long interview with the star, John Cho, and the director.  Evidently this is the first film with an Asian person as the lead.  I'm not sure how they define this - first film??  What about Bruce Lee, or Jackie Chan?  I'm not talking about the Charlie Chan movies since the star of those many many films was a Swedish actor.  But frankly that doesn't mean a whole lot to me.  I mean, why not a Chinese guy as the lead? So what? OK, enough.

As for the movie, the other thing that got a lot of attention is that the entire film, each and every shot was from a screen: phone screen, facebook live, iTalk, Television and others I think.  And for me it really worked, because it was an integral part of the plot.  A teen girl disappears, and her dad can't find her.  He discovers that he doesn't know his daughter very well at all.  I really liked this film - 4 paws.

Peppermint  

This was another interesting twist on a murder/revenge film.  In this one, it's the mom who is driven to a bunch of violent to revenge the death of her family.  This one had some nice twists to it. ​ Not alot to describe, but still it was fun - if you think lots of people getting beaten and killed is fun.  I say 3 paws.

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