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At the story’s outset, he already believes…that “there are people out there…more powerful and wealthier than us, that are communicating things, and seeing things in the world that are meant for only them and not for us.”

And once his glamorous neighbor, Sarah (Riley Keough), vanishes on the day they were meant to consummate their acquaintance, Sam becomes obsessively focused on his theory that her fate, and now his own, are linked to a vast and deadly conspiracy that’s solvable only by scrutinizing the specific pop culture ephemera with which he surrounds himself….Complicating things slightly, of course, is the fact that Sam is correct.

If you haven’t seen Under the Silver Lake yet, do it. It’s a paranoid nod to Reddit culture and in fact, the movie itself is an embedded real-life code that has yet to be solved. Read more about it here.