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The verdict is in. So what now?
Before my screening of The Social Reckoning, the Molly Rose Foundation ran an advertisement in which Ian Russell described Instagram’s part in his teenage daughter’s death. It may be unfair to measure a two-hour drama against thirty seconds of a bereaved father’s testimony, but for all the film’s outraged speeches, none lands quite so hard.…
A woman in a red swimsuit sits at the end of a wooden dock, shrouded in mist. She (Aubrey Plaza) is still, but clearly shaken; devastated even. There is a sense that she is barely holding it together. It’s an image that Black Bear returns to repeatedly, that of some mysterious trauma; even as it delves into notions of art and artifice.…
