Films and Feelings

            Objectively measuring a film’s widespread impact is such an abstract concept, it’s almost an impossibility. A film’s cultural resonance can manifest in any number of ways, and not all of them are ever expressed or documented. A viewer may not even realize how they are even affected by a film in the first place. Moreover, the audience that elevates a film to legend is not always the audience this film premieres to: hindsight and evolving perspectives have been key to the elevation of many works of high art across time.              That all said, if you were to ask me how impacted I was by almost any Netflix original film, I can’t say with any confidence that I would even remember what you were talking about.   tick, tick ... BOOM! (2021)              I have for a while wanted to talk about Netflix, specifically its slate of original films, and its evolving role in the media landscape. The function of a streaming service has gone well past the days of just hoarding fa