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The 'speed-watching' on Netflix and the obsessive cult of haste

2020-10-21T01:45:56.917Z


We live in fear of wasting time and that makes us waste the banal, in which life nests Scene from 'Over the moon', Netflix. (Netflix via AP) AP I remembered that old Woody Allen joke that tells: “I did a speed reading course on War and Peace in 20 minutes. It's about Russia, ”and then I hit the stop button. After twenty minutes of chained dialogue and scenes without pauses between them, not to mention the strident tone of voice of the characters, the image was finally stopped. So I


Scene from 'Over the moon', Netflix.

(Netflix via AP) AP

I remembered that old Woody Allen joke that tells: “I did a speed reading course on

War and Peace

in 20 minutes.

It's about Russia, ”and then I hit the stop button.

After twenty minutes of chained dialogue and scenes without pauses between them, not to mention the strident tone of voice of the characters, the image was finally stopped.

So I made a mental list of everything that had been left out: ...

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