Movies ever day in May: Ingrid Goes West
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Date: 2023-05-08

After so many dark movies, I had to find some humor. I followed Ingrid to West.

Ingrid Thornburn (Aubrey Plaza) is a young woman, who likes to stalk people on the internet. She gets into a mental asylum after she sprays another woman at their wedding. Basically she is your "regular, everyday weird psycho" who think she has a connection with someone, who comments on their instagram.

After getting out of the mental hospital, she finds her new obsession in a magazine, Taylor Sloane (played by Elizabeth Olsen). Ingrid's mother just died, and she left her a big amount of money, which she uses to move to LA, and follows Sloane everywhere.

I am glad that the movie shows the female version of a stalker, since most of the danger comes from men. While the movie is labelled as a comedy, it's definitely a sad story.

Just another story, why people should give up social media, and this crazy attachment to celebrities. This whole thing changed humanity to the worse.