(he has over 1,3m subscribers to his YouTube channel.) Burnham clearly knows the milieu of today’s adolescents a particularly vivid early montage in the film, scored to Enya’s “Sail Away,” depicts Kayla’s lyrical and disturbing journey down the Internet rabbit hole of Buzzfeed quizzes, YouTube clips, and snapchat feeds. In his debut feature, actor and comedian Bo Burnham ( The Big Sick, MTV’s Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous) tackles an apropos topic given his background as a teenage online sensation. But in this alternatingly funny and sad social-mediated spin on the typical coming-of-age film, it will take her a while to figure it all out.Ī piquant series of vignettes that form a singular and focused portrait of youthful angst In between her multiple “ums,” “you knows,” “likes,” and empty platitudes, the real Kayla Day may be in there somewhere. When we first meet 13-year-old Kayla Day, she is, like so many of today’s adolescents, making an online video, in which she talks about the challenges of being yourself at the same time as she herself, is struggling to do just that.
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