When her mother goes 'Missing,' a Gen-Z teen takes up a tense search on screens
It is a truth universally acknowledged that repetition often destroys elegance.
Compare the elegance of Speed (if this bus slows down, it will blow up) with the clumsy Speed 2: Cruise Control (this cruise ship is going to very slowly run into a beach). The elegance of The Fast and the Furious (street racing is fun!) with Ludacris and Tyrese Gibson ending up in space. The elegance of Die Hard (one cop tries to rescue a building full of hostages) with ... well, any other Die Hard movie.
The 2014 horror film , an early entry in the "screenlife" category in which everything plays out on computer screens,), but to epistolary novels, too. In all these forms, the traditional telling of a story is replaced by the opportunity for the viewer/reader to examine the evidence that the story happened.
