An unstable woman seeks out the perfect life in “Ingrid Goes West,” a dark satire of social-media culture that’s not as incisive as it wants to be.
Aubrey Plaza stars as Ingrid, who obsesses over the Instagram posts of a high-school classmate’s wedding — a wedding to which she was not invited, and crashes with horrible effect. A short stint in the mental hospital later, Ingrid is back home and finds a new obsession: social-media star Taylor Sloane (Elizabeth Olsen), who constantly posts on Instagram about her picture-perfect life with her artist husband, Ezra (Wyatt Russell), in Venice, Calif.