Early in the film, there is a significant detail when one of the characters uses the expression "the walk of shame" to signify the humiliating experience of walking into a strange kitchen the morning after spending a night of intimacy at the home of a stranger. Around the same time, another character uses the phrase "I'm into casual" to convey the willingness to participate in the licentious nature of serial relationships. Those details may pertain to a hedonism that hovers over the characters in this film and ultimately leads to a gruesome tragedy.
Dave Kroupa was a Nebraska grease monkey who wanted to play the field after the break-up with his wife and the end of his twelve-year marriage. But there may be liabilities to his swinging lifestyle when Dave starts to juggle dating and sleeping with both Shanna "Liz" Golyar and Cari Farver. Suddenly, Cari goes missing and Dave and others close to him begin to receive strange and threatening text messages from Cari. The major question emerges: who really is Cari Farver?
The film was superbly crafted not only with suspense and dramatic tension, but with a searing intensity in the search to understand the story behind the missing Cari Farver. The movie was based on the book "A Tangled Web" by Leslie Rule, and this may be an instance where the film is better than the book. Rule's narrative covers an expanse of three years and 12,000 e-mails and text messages. The compressed and taut structure of the film made for a highly-charged and dynamic intrigue. The performances were first-rate, and the set-ups and camera angles frequently evoked a sinister style. The film also demonstrated the chilling impact of cybercrime, even in such a seemingly mundane function as text messaging.
Cari Farver was depicted as a kind, genuine soul caught up in circumstances she likely never understood. The film viewer is similarly drawn like a moth to a light bulb, fascinated by the psychological depths to which one disturbed soul may go to avoid the dreaded experience of the walk of shame.
Dave Kroupa was a Nebraska grease monkey who wanted to play the field after the break-up with his wife and the end of his twelve-year marriage. But there may be liabilities to his swinging lifestyle when Dave starts to juggle dating and sleeping with both Shanna "Liz" Golyar and Cari Farver. Suddenly, Cari goes missing and Dave and others close to him begin to receive strange and threatening text messages from Cari. The major question emerges: who really is Cari Farver?
The film was superbly crafted not only with suspense and dramatic tension, but with a searing intensity in the search to understand the story behind the missing Cari Farver. The movie was based on the book "A Tangled Web" by Leslie Rule, and this may be an instance where the film is better than the book. Rule's narrative covers an expanse of three years and 12,000 e-mails and text messages. The compressed and taut structure of the film made for a highly-charged and dynamic intrigue. The performances were first-rate, and the set-ups and camera angles frequently evoked a sinister style. The film also demonstrated the chilling impact of cybercrime, even in such a seemingly mundane function as text messaging.
Cari Farver was depicted as a kind, genuine soul caught up in circumstances she likely never understood. The film viewer is similarly drawn like a moth to a light bulb, fascinated by the psychological depths to which one disturbed soul may go to avoid the dreaded experience of the walk of shame.