I need setting to change to feed my low attention span

 This week we watched the movie Daughters of the Dust for class. I would first like to say that generally I liked the concept of the movie. I liked the way that nature almost played its own character in the film, and a lot of the sounds and shots added great context and flavor to the plot. However I found myself feeling bored almost the entire movie, and towards the end I realized that it was because the setting never really changed. I have grown so accustomed to seeing screens with rapidly changing color schemes and movies that change setting almost every scene that when I sit down to watch a movie like this, where the setting never changing is imperative to the story, I cannot do it. My attention span is to low. I need to see more. This got me thinking onto the future of what we call film. How much will movies that we love so much today be abke to be appreciated by people in the future. The average attention span is growing lower every year. And with growing popularity among social media apps like tik-tok and instagram where every swipe you see a brand new video thats less than a minute long, this has got me asking the question how ling will movies last?

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  1. Anna HoldemanMay 3, 2021 at 10:23 PM

    This is totally interesting to think about, and I agree with you that my attention span is also way lower than it used to be. I think the use of setting was an interesting way to frame this move however, especially when we were discussing in class how it could be considered to be a character in the movie almost as much as any of the other characters. But then again I did have to take breaks in between watching it because I couldn't pay attention for longer than 20 minuets at a time.

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  2. Miranda WhitakerJune 2, 2021 at 6:43 PM

    I totally agree with you that nature was seemingly portrayed as its own character. While this choice was interesting, beautiful and eye catching, it doesn't really grab the viewer the same way movies with dialogue do. I also found myself losing interest as the movie went on, partly due to the non-changing scenery, but also the lack of dialogue. I did appreciate the cinematography though.

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