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A woman goes to work.
Chloe Cho is a young Korean-American woman working as an engineer in a tech company in Silicon Valley. Her office is highly competitive and she works with mostly men, though there is another Asian-American woman, Angela, who works there as well and whom Chloe is often mixed up with.
Angela goes away, and Chloe makes inroads at the office and makes herself comfortable at Angela’s apartment, even wearing her clothes and following her routines. But when Angela’s mother makes an unexpected visit, Chloe’s ambitions are threatened, and her illusions begin to unravel.
Directed and written by Yeon Jin Lee, this short drama thriller begins in a wash of bright, aspirational light and color, gently sunny electronic ambient music bubbling on the soundtrack as Chloe walks into her job at a Silicon Valley tech company. For a moment, viewers could be mistaken into thinking this is a chicly appointed, stylish portrait of a young woman finding her way in life and livelihood, plucky and optimistic in the face of obstacles. But the narrative unspools a much darker, noirish tale of obsession, desire and ambition, told through a particularly Asian-American female lens and set in a particular milieu that reverberates in fascinating ways in the story.
We first observe Chloe at work in a series of interactions that expose her vulnerable position at the office: she’s mixed up with the other Asian-American woman in her group -- something many in the cohort can perhaps relate to -- and she’s told to keep smiling. Yet, there’s something awkward about her, and the uneasiness builds as we see her switch her name with Angela’s and then stonily shut down her co-worker’s conversation. Actor Audrey Hui is excellent at balancing Chloe’s surface guilelessness and delicate eagerness to please with a hidden steeliness and focus. She can flicker with an uncertainty and vulnerability, but then shroud herself in a veil of stony, sharp impenetrability to great effect.
That core toughness finds an outlet in a twisted, dark direction, as the excellent writing reveals through an exquisitely controlled flow of information. By the time we realize the full extent of Chloe’s illusions and desires, we’ve reached the film’s height of suspense and dread, though the storytelling never shied away from Chloe’s uncanniness as a character. Instead, SILICON VALLEY GIRL -- inspired by the writer-director’s own experiences as a computer scientist in the tech sector and serving as proof-of-concept for a more extended story -- generates tension in charting how Chloe’s latent will to power has been warped by her isolating experiences in a punishing industry. The question is just how far she will go to get what she wants, and just how much her obsession will consume her.
SILICON VALLEY GIRL. Courtesy of Yeon Jin Lee at https://instagram.com/siliconvalleygirlfilm.
Chloe Cho is a young Korean-American woman working as an engineer in a tech company in Silicon Valley. Her office is highly competitive and she works with mostly men, though there is another Asian-American woman, Angela, who works there as well and whom Chloe is often mixed up with.
Angela goes away, and Chloe makes inroads at the office and makes herself comfortable at Angela’s apartment, even wearing her clothes and following her routines. But when Angela’s mother makes an unexpected visit, Chloe’s ambitions are threatened, and her illusions begin to unravel.
Directed and written by Yeon Jin Lee, this short drama thriller begins in a wash of bright, aspirational light and color, gently sunny electronic ambient music bubbling on the soundtrack as Chloe walks into her job at a Silicon Valley tech company. For a moment, viewers could be mistaken into thinking this is a chicly appointed, stylish portrait of a young woman finding her way in life and livelihood, plucky and optimistic in the face of obstacles. But the narrative unspools a much darker, noirish tale of obsession, desire and ambition, told through a particularly Asian-American female lens and set in a particular milieu that reverberates in fascinating ways in the story.
We first observe Chloe at work in a series of interactions that expose her vulnerable position at the office: she’s mixed up with the other Asian-American woman in her group -- something many in the cohort can perhaps relate to -- and she’s told to keep smiling. Yet, there’s something awkward about her, and the uneasiness builds as we see her switch her name with Angela’s and then stonily shut down her co-worker’s conversation. Actor Audrey Hui is excellent at balancing Chloe’s surface guilelessness and delicate eagerness to please with a hidden steeliness and focus. She can flicker with an uncertainty and vulnerability, but then shroud herself in a veil of stony, sharp impenetrability to great effect.
That core toughness finds an outlet in a twisted, dark direction, as the excellent writing reveals through an exquisitely controlled flow of information. By the time we realize the full extent of Chloe’s illusions and desires, we’ve reached the film’s height of suspense and dread, though the storytelling never shied away from Chloe’s uncanniness as a character. Instead, SILICON VALLEY GIRL -- inspired by the writer-director’s own experiences as a computer scientist in the tech sector and serving as proof-of-concept for a more extended story -- generates tension in charting how Chloe’s latent will to power has been warped by her isolating experiences in a punishing industry. The question is just how far she will go to get what she wants, and just how much her obsession will consume her.
SILICON VALLEY GIRL. Courtesy of Yeon Jin Lee at https://instagram.com/siliconvalleygirlfilm.
