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Re:Cannes Interview: Christopher Nolan on a new “unrestored”... by zwkrt on Saturday May 19, 2018 @10:25AM (#17108000)
"Consume" and "Content" are the two most disgusting words I can think of in the context of art and more generally entertainment. They are words invented by advertisers to reduce artistic works into commodities and people into passive zombies. They are a misanthropic conception of the way that people interact with artistic works, and we seem to put up with it because they make great DB column names.
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Re:Cannes Interview: Christopher Nolan on a new “unrestored”... by oever on Saturday May 19, 2018 @05:14PM (#17109764)
"Consume" for media is a wrong word. After you consume something it should be gone. You can be consumed by disease, meaning you're becoming less due to it.

Movies, books, songs are not less when you enjoy them.

Instead of saying you "consume" art, you can say you "spend time with" art.

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Re:Cannes Interview: Christopher Nolan on a new “unrestored”... by ksec on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @09:04AM (#17125578)
Well they is when you view something as art. I consume a lot of movies, but I spend a lot more time with Christopher Nolan's film, and rewatch time in some cases multiple times.
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