Like a story can literally beat someone over the head with a theme or moral and people somehow come to the opposite conclusion?
It’s like “Tyler Durden is so manly and cool” except every bit of media feels like it’s misinterpreted like that now.
Like a story can literally beat someone over the head with a theme or moral and people somehow come to the opposite conclusion?
It’s like “Tyler Durden is so manly and cool” except every bit of media feels like it’s misinterpreted like that now.
i think the volume of media and its instant availability blunts or reduces the time for reflection and analysis.
far more infrastructure exists for straight entertainment. you watch A, then you watch B. maybe you think about A beyond the story, trying to imagine what the message was, but more likely we don’t unless it ended in a way where its characters’ fates or their conclusions are uncertain.
and legit, some people seem to be vicerally upset by that: a movie that leaves something open to interpretation.
my point, i guess, is that the emphasis of media delivery systems these days is to deliver and promote the consumption of more media, not to facilitate digesting it.
i think the general alienation from each other also limits our reflection and analysis. like i always get more out if books or movies when i have a curated group discussion afterward. like a reading group or a discussion class or whatever.