‘Sadly inevitable’ because eventually people would start trying to process the restrictions of the last few years on film. Or, more accurately, their own responses to those restrictions*. In this case, it looks like somebody made a picture about how much they hate Zoom calls (and fear the conditions that are making them use Zoom), then got Anthony Hopkins to have a part in it. It might do well, since everybody hates life via Zoom calls, got at least nervous about COVID, and likes Anthony Hopkins.
Which is to say: ZERO CONTACT will likely resonate fairly well in 2022, and hopefully not at all by 2032.
*I am, of course, utterly indifferent to ever creating any sort of artistic self-therapy along those lines. Nope. Not me. Nuh-uh.
Watching the extroverts trying to cope, over the last three years, has been … not gonna lie … pretty hilarious.
There’s clear evidence that, to teue extroverts, human interaction has a drug-like quality.
Jonesing for a human-connection fix, scraping the bottom of the barrel for a zoom call…
Pathetic and desperate and, to me an introvert, hysterically funny.
That said, I too am glad the pandemic is ending, but get away from me.
Mew
Zoom calls = psychological horror with looming specter of death? Yeah, that’s a bit on the nose.