Being a cinephile is way more rewarding when you stop worrying about what films are “the best” and instead focus on the movies that interest you. You don’t have to force yourself to rewatch the Dune movies because everybody hypes them up. Find your niche. Pursue your obsessions.
Parasociality, surveillance, call out culture, carceral logics of punishment, no third spaces or social life, moral puritanism bc of political powerlessness, declining literacy/media literacy, edits/meme warfare as propaganda, all monetized by influencers via algorithm