'Ingrid Goest West' shows how frighteningly easy it is to stalk your obsession
As if the concept of "privacy" weren't folly enough in this digital age, meet Ingrid Thorburn.
Aubrey Plaza plays the title character in Ingrid Goest West, which premiered at Sundance in January, comes to theaters this weekend and fed my Veronica Mars jones with every delicious scene. I loved the film, in no small part because of its perfect depiction of the everyday deceptions that are the stock-in-trade of my favorite fictional private eyes like Mars, Jim Rockford and Travis McGee.
Except Ingrid's private investigations aren't for a client -- they're for her. And she's not just a cyberstalker. Ingrid is an accidental super-sleuth who uses subtle misdirection and quick thinking to manipulate everyone around her. She's brilliant at it.
In this Ingrid Goes West clip shared exclusively with Mashable, watch Ingrid totally play a dopey waiter into telling her what her mark (Taylor Sloane, played by Elizabeth Olsen) had for brunch that day -- just one of the dozens of slick moves she uses to get closer to being friends with the Instagram star.
It's not even close to her best move. That involves kidnapping a dog.
(And for you fellow Angelinos, yes, that scene is filmed at Ostrich Farm in Silver Lake. They don't actually have samosas, but be sure to try the ricotta pancakes.)
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Josh Dickey is Mashable's Entertainment Editor, leading Mashable's TV, music, gaming and sports reporters as well as writing movie features and reviews.Josh has been the Film Editor at Variety, Entertainment Editor at The Associated Press and Managing Editor at TheWrap.com.A finalist for the Los Angeles Press Club's Best Entertainment Feature in 2015 for "Everyone is Altered: The Secret Hollywood Procedure that Fooled Us for Years," Josh received his BA in Journalism from The University of Minnesota.In between screenings, he can be found skating longboards, shredding guitar and wandering the streets of his beloved downtown Los Angeles.
