And it does a nice job, I think, of, even though you're just - it's a movie where you're just watching somebody use technology, it finds ways to work around that to keep the pacing really tight. And to me, this sounds like the quintessential Gen Z movie, right? A young woman, young girl, sitting at home with all of her devices, using them to open up a whole new world. So this young woman who is stuck at home in front of her computer decides to use all of the tools at her disposal to figure out what happened to her mother and where her mother is. HOLMES: Well, "Missing," as you mentioned, is about a young woman, played by Storm Reid, who - her mother goes off on a vacation with her boyfriend to Columbia and sort of vanishes and goes no-contact. But first, if you could, could you just set the stage for us with this movie, "Missing"? How does all the action play out there? And, y'all, I want to get back to screenlife more broadly in a moment. It's our new weekly segment of cultural criticism and commentary. SUMMERS: And they are joining us for the first installment of The Take. Today, our guides to screenlife are Linda Holmes and Stephen Thompson, the hosts of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour. It's the latest iteration of a genre aptly called screenlife, in which plot develops purely through the screen devices that have come to dominate all of our lives. SUMMERS: The movie is "Missing," a thriller about a young woman scouring the web to search for her mother who's gone missing in Columbia. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character) You need to let the police handle this. MEGAN SURI: (As Veena) You're going through Kevin's email? Right now, you could use your little screen to buy a ticket to a big screen to watch a movie where, well, lots of different screens are used to solve a mystery.
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