15 Incredible Hidden Details You Missed In 2018 Movies

12. The URLS - Searching

Searching John Cho
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If you pay close enough attention to Aneesh Chaganty's Searching, you'll notice a few things. Firstly, it's not just about John Cho searching for his missing daughter, it's also an alien invasion movie. It just so happens that the alien invasion is purely incidental to the main plot and only happens in background parts of the screen.

Once you start to notice the hints, it gives you reason to go back and rewatch the film repeatedly to spot everything, which has got to be any film-maker's chief goal. And the more you watch, the more you're likely to find delightful little details like the secret fake URLs that Chaganty dropped in at one point spelling out clearly what they hoped the reaction to their movie would be...

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