The title of this first feature from Australian filmmakers Danny and Michael Philippou (a.k.a. YouTube creators RackaRacka) is at once a quote from the film’s diegetic world—dialogue spoken repeatedly by the film’s teenage characters in their paranormal conjuring—and a signifier of the narrative’s social criticism, a smarmy parental directive at a plugged-in youth culture viewed as alienated, disaffected, and immature. It may also be the exhortation of a viewer underwhelmed by Talk to Me’s half-hearted revelations.
Protagonist Mia (Sophie Wilde), grieving the anniversary of her mother’s death by suicide, becomes entranced by a video on social media of her friends in a garage experiencing what appears to be supernatural possession: they flail, they vocalize in otherworldly affectations, and their pupils are severely enlarged by the type
