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Monday morning brought the unfairly overlooked 2018 thriller Under the Silver Lake to Netflix, giving movie fans access to the trippy mystery they didn’t know they needed. If you like a movie that keeps you guessing from start to finish (and never actually gives you the direct answers you’re expecting), Under the Silver Lake is for you.
What Is Under the Silver Lake?
If you aren’t familiar, A24’s Under the Silver Lake stars Andrew Garfield and comes from writer/director David Robert Mitchell, who is best known for the 2014 horror breakout It Follows. Under the Silver Lake is a real departure from It Follows, centering on an idiosyncratic young man in Los Angeles (Garfield) who becomes obsessed with finding a missing girl (Riley Keough) he met at a swimming pool. As he embarks on a drug-laced trip through some of the stranger pockets of LA, he finds himself caught up in a much bigger conspiracy.
Under the Silver Lake feels like the millennial successor to The Big Lebowski, in that it’s so much less about the big result than it is watching its protagonist stumble through a criminal world clearly not made for him. It’s also got a stellar supporting cast, which includes Topher Grace and Riki Lindhome.
If you haven’t seen Under the Silver Lake before, and you’re a fan of mysteries and/or Garfield’s work, this is certainly one to move to the top of your watchlist. Not enough people saw it when it came out, and time has been more-than-kind to Mitchell’s oddball thriller.
