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5. Maybe "attention span" isn't quite the right concept
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 03:59 PM
Apr 23

In the sense that I could still sit through the entire movie. It's just that as a kid, in the long scenes of quiet horseback riding and such, I remember the feeling of tension, ominous danger, they had to keep moving because the trackers were relentless.

Wondering "who are those guys?" And how to give them the slip and so on. It was exciting, nervous-making, tense drama. Those long scenes were important to the feeling that they were being chased and chased with no let-up.

When u saw it years later, those parts weee just boring, I had been trained to expect movies to be non-stop action.

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