“Lurker” is a narrow, elegant and disturbing example of fame diseases of our time. He tells the story of Matthew (Theodore Pillerin), and he is not working in one of the Los Angel -bare clothing stores screaming the fans but tries to jump to the next level. (He is still riding in a tourist bus.) Matthew, my brother Oliver, his hangers, and his friend of social media. And Matthew is grateful – in fact, to the point that he will do anything, and stop at nothing, to keep his arrival.
Thirty years ago, the hypothesis like this was the fuel to excite the traditional Hollywood. But Alex Russell, the writer of “Lurker”, works with the aesthetic of a very tense portable camera that makes the entire movie a mirror of what is going on: The Fleeting I-Shoot-A-VIDEO-FISELF-THERE-II-IAM Celebrities that have become the world currency in the Instagram era. Everyone in the movie roams them to be cold, and to be more than you are, to be wiped by Oliver, and thus to participate in the distinctive aura of his star. But it is like a castle in the air from the ambition based on something other than itself.
This may seem a little easy, but the real “Lurker” fist begins with Matthew, which appears by Théodore Pellerin as a character for a hidden and interesting account. Initially, we think it is just obsessed, because this is what itself offers: very embarrassing to be anything that is not sincere, with a wide smile and bird -like eyes stare like laser. (He drives a bike instead of a car and lives with his grandmother) The right place. The more we see that it is working, the greater those eyes that have become a study of suspense. He got a touch of Norman Bings, along with the negative temptation that reminds me of the great performance of Mike White as a chaser in “Chuck & Buck”. Matthew is obsessed with playing obsessive, and those heavenly bodies that take everything in it.
He works in the clothes store when the British and British Oliver wanders around his distinctive hair (red at the top, dark on both sides) to browse. There was before, and Matthew programs immediately “My Love For You” on the headphone system – a beautiful path off the 1983 Nile Rogers album. He knows that it is one of Oliver’s deep preferences, and that it will make him look like Oliver’s final experts to play. Certainly, Oliver’s attention, Oliver comes and is estimated at him. Matthew is asked to come to a width of that night, and to take his number so that he can pass behind the scenes.
When Matthew reaches the dressing room, what he sees is not what he expected: Oliver sits with a girlfriend and a member of his entourage (who knows him since middle school), and no one can care less than Matthew, with the exception of Razz for him (he is asked to offer his pants ). But this is because it is not at home yet; This scene resembles meager rituals, which it goes through. So Oliver asks him to come to his home in the Hollywood hills. Matthew has ordered the bringing of the old school’s video camera, because Matthew wants to document-to help the documentary that Oliver makes for himself, and to reach ready-made social media.
Oliver, like any star star, wants to rise, he has spread himself, but not long ago this type of things could have been dealt with by the registration company, and the propaganda that works for it. Fame is now more self -generated, and therefore it does not matter whether Matthew, behind the camera, has talent (although he). All they shoot at it can be disposed of: pranks, the service of fans vérité, all that will attract people’s attention.
Greatly, we see Oliver and Matthew playing a mutual game of fake admiration. Oliver tells his new brothers that he is special (because Matthew Understand To him), and that he may be his best friend; But we can say that Oliver, even in most enthusiastic, says only everything that is in his head. He can withstand the lack of his words means anything. What he wants from Matthew is a kind of compliment that can complain. “I think you will be the world’s largest artist,” Matthew says, and he seems to mean that. This is the type of suspension that strikes the sweet spot. Archie Madekwe, from “Saltburn”, is strengthening Oliver with a wonderful authentic atmosphere of intimate friendship on the air always present … for a price. This is why everything is very volatile.
Oliver, from a broken background, says that the people around him are a family – and that he now has the ability to choose his family. This is one of the topics of the film: that temporary worship sects on social media, and in famous containers, have become alternative families, and this is one of the reasons that cause them to cause addiction. Matthew is no less than Oliver’s admiration; He is a drug addict in his new place in the world. Thanks to Oliver, Matthew account explodes on Instagram with followers; Suddenly, it’s “famous” too. All this happens, move forward on his own – at least, until they filmed a video of one of the songs of Oliver with sheep in one of the followers, and the official documentary (Daniel Zolgardry), with whom Matthew was working with N. Camera juice and suddenly he does not find his backup batteries. Yes! We have a very good idea of taking them.
There is a “everything about EVE” aspect of the “Lurker” digital age. When Jimmy (sunny Solgic), Matthew Rafik from the clothing store, finds himself by Oliver because of his hand -made homes (suddenly, hanging at home as well). . He thought he was the distinguished, the star of his brothers. He does not want to share love. Even when Oliver, after the group’s trip to London, begins to know that Matthew is a problem and freezes, it will not end there. Matthew created a surveillance camera in the living room in Oliver, and when two young fans come to him in Oliver in the boutique, he only knows how to use blackmail.
“Lurker”, as it may be (and as its address tells you), is not a warm experience. The film, which I think can have a real life from the outside (do you listen, A24?), It is almost fully informed from Matthew’s point of view, which, in this immoral way that cinema may be, make us take a harmful pleasure in the roots even It succeeds. But Alexras Anthropology’s position is cooler and more separate. He does not make Matthew in his hero tomorrow. He is much more interested in our presence in the full famous circus that has become famous pop.