A new breed of thrillers such as the John Cho-starring Searching use computer screens as a framing device. It’s a high-impact technique, even if it looks daft in the cinema
“I am big; it’s the pictures that got small,” sneered Norma Desmond, the screen-diva heroine of Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, about an industry that had left her behind for television. She didn’t know how good she had it: movie stars these days must accept that many of their fans prefer to gaze upon their faces shrunk to iPhone size. For the Netflix generation, the laptop screen is the big one; the flatscreen telly is basically Imax.
Now, a spate of thrillers are building their stories expressly around the laptop screen. When you consider our changing viewing habits, it makes sense: it is a genre of cinema that actively benefits from downsizing the viewing experience. It...
“I am big; it’s the pictures that got small,” sneered Norma Desmond, the screen-diva heroine of Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, about an industry that had left her behind for television. She didn’t know how good she had it: movie stars these days must accept that many of their fans prefer to gaze upon their faces shrunk to iPhone size. For the Netflix generation, the laptop screen is the big one; the flatscreen telly is basically Imax.
Now, a spate of thrillers are building their stories expressly around the laptop screen. When you consider our changing viewing habits, it makes sense: it is a genre of cinema that actively benefits from downsizing the viewing experience. It...
- 8/20/2018
- by Guy Lodge
- The Guardian - Film News
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