On the first anniversary of her younger sister Amelia’s death, Rosie, Woodstock teen, discovers the mysterious man who sexploited and bullied her sister to commit suicide back on line trolling for new victims. After the authorities refuse to get involved she finds a darker side she never knew she had as she takes justice into her own hands.

We’ve been told to be careful while browsing and posting on social media. Every virtual action we make is a step we take in the real world. Some people even come to think that whatever you show on social media is completely different to what you do in real life. In the end, it doesn’t matter who you are or who you’re pretending to be because you’re exposing yourself to family, friends and strangers around the world.

#Like (2019) tells the story of Rosie Danvers (Sarah Rich), a high school cheerleader looking for closure during while mourning her sister, which committed suicide after being bullied by an online stalker. Rosie starts collecting evidence in her sister’s old online profile and social media videos, and even reactivates her online profile to attract her sister’s bullies. Miraculously, it works and, even though the stalker lives in the same small town as Rosie, and goes by the username Andrew Tames Unicorns, he doesn’t seem to know about the death of Rosie’s sister and he engages in small talk with her.

Rosie goes to the police with the evidence and they deny her request for help and review her collected evidence. Later, while driving her bike around town, she discovers a man who fits the description of her evidence and follows him to a park where he is taking pictures. Before leaving, Rosie sees a dreamcatcher, resembling one that her sister used to craft, hanging from his rearview mirror. After having a talk with her friends, she decides to make her mission to bring down the guy that stalked her sister.

Rosie goes to any extent to research the man and make him pay for his sins. First, she breaks into his barely furnished rundown house. After not finding much to incriminate the man, she decides to go to plan B: to kidnap the man and torture him. After this, the film, like the main character, goes wild.

#Like seems to be a statement to movements like #MeToo and Time’s Up. Having this in mind, it’s hard to review something that talks about ongoing events and it might look wrong to point the flaws of such subject. But, when it comes to this film, even if it’s a statement, it also stays true to the depiction of the witch hunt driven by the collective hysteria of a social trend that tends to terrorize with ignorance than to unite with knowledge. This can be seen during the moment when Rosie, and this is a spoiler, discovers that the contractor is not the man to blame for her sister’s death. Sadly, this age has gone back to times when it was easier to point a finger and blame anyone that crossed your path without doing the obliged research instead of mentioning the word “allegedly” every once in a while making it lose it’s meaning.

For an indie film, the actors and the script are impeccable. It can’t be said much about the audio because it’s terrible; headphones are a good choice to enjoy the film but it still won’t help much.

#Like is a statement even if it doesn’t have a big platform to become memorable. But it’s big enough to leave a moral.