Review of Spree (2020) by Voodoodudeman — 19 Aug 2020

Amazing!! Great dark black mirror esc satiric commentary on our social media driven world and how young kids and teens know the world only through the new norm of social media. "If you're not documenting yourself are you even alive"? Interesting story, Joe Keery gives an incredible performance as and awkward young person who had a very tough upringing and clearly has unaddressed issues. He's performance gives the feel of the bland awkward boring online personality which makes sense that he doesn't have any followers despite his extensive uploads but his desperate need and want for attention and trials of becoming something and failing show layers of the character and really lets Keerys performance shine.

The film also if one of the first to succeed in the technical way in terms of the new age found footage esc film. So many films before like "darknet" and "unfriended" tried to make the webcam social media found footage film but grossly failed. Spree not only gives you a lot of action and angle coverage through its many cameras setup by our fame hungry protagonist and other social media personalities it also fully justifies all the cameras being there without the viewer questioning the likeliness of them being there. Everything flows very smoothly and there isn't a single angle which is not from a phone, go pro, or cctv cameras. Spree is comparable to Taxi Driver as Taxi Driver was a timecapsule of the 1970s LA Spree is a very much time capsule of 2020 and how this very new social media filming and posting everything and living vicariously through other can and is harmful to everyone and in the case of our protagonist Kurt can lead a man to do Crazy, unjustifiable actions just to get viewers and likes.

Truly an amazing film and recommendable to everyone who can think a bit more about the themes and commentary and not dissmiss the character or his actions just because you dont understand social media mr. Newspaper journalist movie reviewer who probably still has a flip phone.