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We don’t how to fictionally render lives lived in front of screens, so instead we get fantasies of those on-screen fantasies.

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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.

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