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What if none of it matters? This, along with lunch, is the gnawing concern at the back of the critic’s mind. It eats at David Thomson as much as anyone. At eighty-five, he’s been moviegoing since before my mother was born. Anyone who’s sat that long in the dark— through Ben-Hur, Jaws 3-D, and The Legend of Bagger Vance— has sown and harvested many seasons of doubt. One of his refrains is that he doesn’t know “whether movies have been good for us.” Thomson likes referring to “movie” in the singular, as in, “How did civiliza- tion find the patience to wait so long to have movie invented?” This empha- sizes its substanceness. …
摘自《哈泼斯杂志》(Harper's Magazine)第353卷 第2114期 · 2026年7月刊,Dan Piepenbring。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。