Holly Wainwright

You could even say that the atmosphere of the show has created a phone nostalgia in younger people who have never known that world because the contrast between this moment in history of these two absurdly beautiful people falling in love and our own is really stark.

So in Love Story, audiences are seeing a universe structured around friction.

Things weren't automated or simple.

And some of the observations that were made in this viral substack are that information was finite.

So there was a beginning and an end to your intake and scarcity created meaning.

Photos were taken on film and because of that, they weren't developed till weeks later and there was a delay between experience and documentation, which made them two different things.

Whereas now it's like we live and archive at the same time, which I have always felt takes away from the living part because you're doing another job.

access was physical.

So if you wanted to be seen, you had to be at a party, you had to be at an event.

You had to go somewhere.

You had to go, you had to put on clothes and go somewhere and interact with other humans.

Whereas now visibility is digital.

There was distance between you and the world's chaos.

Like we weren't as globalised as we are now.

We weren't as interconnected as

You chose what you consumed.

The world had edges and work had edges.

So when you left the office, you left.

Containment.

Exactly.