Murder is a form of performance art in an exclusive clip from surreal social-media thriller Like Me
On one level, Like Me, the debut feature from writer/director/editor/producer Robert Mockler, is a visually arresting satire on internet culture, starring Little Sister’s Addison Timlin as Kiya, a disconnected young woman whose attention-getting stabs at viral fame escalate along with her YouTube views, with disturbingly violent results. But, as Timlin tells The A.V. Club about the exclusive clip from the film below, she sees Kiya as something deeper than that. “I never found her to be sociopathic, I found her to be an artist,” albeit a mentally unstable one, she says. “The heart of the movie, for me, is a young woman who can’t identify with the culture of her peers, and she feels so disconnected. She realizes the only way to connect with people is to join the party, and she’s going as far as she can go to hold up a mirror to how truly disgusting we’ve all become.”