![]() It’s during this week-long forest excursion that, shocker, an alien invasion occurs and probably the only two people in the world who don’t know shit about it are Su and Jack, who are busy realizing how woefully ill-equipped they are as people of nature. No phones, no social media, no contact with the outside world. It’s the success of an enterprising friend who unplugged from social media and started a worthwhile humanitarian effort that inspires Su and Jack to get away and find themselves. ![]() You have no idea how refreshing that is to find at Sundance. From the opening moments, as they lay tangled up in one another on the couch flipping through their phones, Su and Jack are a perfect mess of adult insecurities, but they’re sure about one another. But thankfully, Save Yourselves! isn’t a movie where we are constantly wondering whether these two are meant to be together. They’re so ruled by the technology at their disposal, they can’t have an argument without having to shut down Alexa first. Su ( GLOW‘s Sunita Mani) and Jack ( Search Party’s John Paul Reynolds) are two such people. The whole thing is strange, and perfect for our social media-obsessed culture in which many of us can’t bother to put our phones down during dinner. Well, the worst actually does happen in the hilarious, spaced-out comedy Save Yourselves!, in which a too-plugged-in couple goes off the radar for a few days and all Hell breaks loose. That’ll be the moment something important happens and we’ll be the last to know. ![]() I think we all imagine the worse when we turn our phones off. ![]()
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