That’s a good point! All the crime procedural movies of the last twenty years have been ruined by tedious scenes of someone behind a computer pulling a deus out of the machina. It’s boring to watch. So movies that want to have at least the sheen of interest go into genre pastiches instead.
We don’t how to fictionally render lives lived in front of screens, so instead we get fantasies of those on-screen fantasies.
That’s a good point! All the crime procedural movies of the last twenty years have been ruined by tedious scenes of someone behind a computer pulling a deus out of the machina. It’s boring to watch. So movies that want to have at least the sheen of interest go into genre pastiches instead.