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• @faithisleaping@anarres.family 2026-09-25 04:22

  @redshift@techhub.social I’m not familiar with Stalker but the movie that comes to mind immediately thinking about this is Blade Runner. Yes, it’s roughly based on a book and maybe it’s even a very good book. But the experience of that movie is unlike anything else. You could write exactly that story down in a book but it would end up being a fairly flat detective story that gets filed in among the thousands of other books in the mystery section of your local library. It would be a little weird but nothing that special. But the movie… The movie is a whole experience. Everything from the Film Noir style to the phenomenal costume and set work. The movie takes you into a whole other world and then tells a story in that world. And in the context of that world, the story is rich and meaningful and it hits you right in the heart. Because it’s no longer just a story about a detective. It’s a story about people and a place and a life none of us can really 100% relate to because we don’t live in that world. And because of that, it captivates us and engages our curiosity as much as our empathy. And to me this is really important because stories aren’t just stories. In order to have meaning, stories need context. And you can either go into excruciating detail and bore your readers to death trying to give them the context (I’m looking at you, Brandon Sanderson) or you can try to play off a context that already exists (“It was a cold October afternoon in Paris in 1465…”) or you can just tell a story and let your readers fill in the detail because none of that matters to you anyway. But with a movie, you can actually set the stage and tell even simple stories with incredible depth and detail.

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