PositiveBookforumWhile the movies have declined, Thomson argues that so too has life \'become a movie.\' We are so enclosed by screens that we struggle to think beyond them ... He looks back with remorse on \'a career of saying this film, not that one,\' turning a rueful eye on his own life’s work ... But revisionism from the standpoint of pessimism risks nihilism. Thomson is in danger of denying, not least in himself, the very possibility of a critical spectator ... As the bad news builds, Thomson stays light on his feet, springing back and forth through time, a fragmented structure to mirror the experience of short-form video in the attention economy.
