Writer/Director Matt Spicer’s Ingrid Goes West opens
with Ingrid (Aubrey Plaza) crashing her supposed best friend’s wedding, to
which she was not invited, and pepper spraying the bride.
After her stint in a mental institution, Ingrid becomes
fixated on Taylor Sloane (Elizabeth Olsen), an Instagram celebrity and, taking
the $60+ thousand dollars she inherits from her mother’s recent death, heads
west to Venice Beach, California, where she stalks the woman and copies her
every habit.
Returning Taylor’s “lost” dog, which Ingrid has
kidnapped, she ingratiates herself into the life of Sloane and her husband (Wyatt
Russell) until Taylor's psycho brother (Billy
Magnussen) unveils Ingrid for whom she is and, ostracized from her new “friends,”
Ingrid, eventually, attempts suicide.
This film may resonate with some American Millennials,
but the rest of humanity…not so much.
It’s the only film I’ve ever seen that, after which, I felt I had to go
home and shower to wash off the vapid energy.
The acting and production values were good, but I can
only give Ingrid Goes West a 2.8 out of 5.
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