As its marketing has made clear,
Searching is a movie that takes place on a computer screen. This format of storytelling is introduced in a brilliant opening sequence that feels akin to that iconic
Up opening where we see the married lives of Carl and Ellie go by in the span of a montage. Similarly,
Searching opens with a montage that follows the life of 16-year-old Margot Kim (Michelle La) and her family, which also contains her parents David (John Cho) and Pamela (Sara Sohn), from her birth to the present day via various internet functions like home videos and social media posts performed on a computer outfitted with Windows 2001 software (oh God, just seeing the default Windows 2001 background took me back!).
