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As someone born on the UES who has been riding those buses for 40 years... these are either transplants who don't do public transit or bots. UES buses are usually crowded and not with the terrifying poor. There can be safety issues in towns with low or class-based ridership, but NYC is not that.

If employers blindly accept what folks post online without checking up on anything, that's on them. As much as it sucks, people have been faking their cred forever. I know a company devastated by hiring a buzzy SM account who misrepresented their entire past. I've seen filmmakers do it themselves.

The original Goosebumps books were MASSIVELY popular; according to the internet, they were selling over 1 million copies per month and are the 2nd best selling series of all time. So if anyone is being inspired, that's likely the source. But I'm also pretty sure there is TV and literature precedent.

Goosebumps #10 The Ghost Next Door came out in 1993, before either, where the protagonist realizes she's a ghost after suspecting others of being ghosts.

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Deep thoughts brought to you by the windswept fall foliage tumbling throughout SEE NO EVIL, which Richard Fleischer gives us time to feel in our bones but most films today wouldn't.

I think about how social media has destroyed us as artists. While peacocking to the community and comparing ourself to others has always existed, social media makes it pathological. It drives how we hire, who we invest in. We spend our lives as publicists hyping a voice that might not get to exist.

Characters in older movies live in the moment, not in the endless, tumultuous, distracting noise of digital life. It makes me wonder if characters in present movies are inherently less relatable because we have to suspend disbelief to pretend they are living in the moment. Because none of us get to.

In the 1970s of SEE NO EVIL it feels like social interaction is more meaningful and intimate. You could write a letter, sure, but phone calls with a cord wrapped around your finger or time in person was how you communicated. Did that make it less superficial? More connected by being less connected?

The idea that there was a past not devoid of expectation, but devoid of constant, immediate expectation outside a setting like a busy office, seems almost fantasy today. There's Mia Farrow enjoying a horse ride; she has to get job training soon, but she doesn't have emails to answer, notifications.

So I was contemplating while watching SEE NO EVIL (because this film's pace and straightforwardness gives you time to think—not necessarily a bad thing) about what truth we can find in cinema as a historic time capsule, despite the inherent movie-magic fakery of sets, lighting, hair and makeup, etc.

Thanks Howard!

Of course, Mrs. Torrance

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