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Columbus
2017 · Film · 104 min
Directed by Kogonada
When a renowned architecture scholar falls suddenly ill during a speaking tour, his son Jin finds himself stranded in Columbus, Indiana - a small Midwestern city celebrated for its many significant modernist buildings. Jin strikes up a friendship with Casey, a young architecture enthusiast who works at the local library.
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There's a fitting quote from 2017's Columbus:
> "[...] in its place, he identifies a different kind of crisis. Not the crisis of attention, but the crisis of interest."
Our attention in fact, has never been as fully absorbed as is today's. In place of books and architecture (as in the film), our attention has shifted towards more rapid forms. Yet in terms of hours spent, our 'attention' towards them has massively increased.
Is the crisis we're feeling then one of purported inattention, or a general loss of interest and satisfaction from our surrounds? What has spurred this crisis? Gabriel and Casey's conversation ends:
> "What about everyday life? Are we losing interest in everyday life?"
The film offers an hopeful answer.
Other films that sprung to mind while reading this: Columbus (2017), Aliens, Escape from New York, Brazil.
You might enjoy the movie Columbus (2017). It's a drama about two people connecting through their passion for architecture with gorgeous shots of the modernist/brutalist buildings in Columbus, Indiana.
It's easy to pick and choose good and bad examples from different eras of architecture. It is unfortunate the author paints all contemporary architecture as cold. I would suggest the movies 'columbus' and 'my architect' to people looking for another perspective.
Get Out is the exception that proves the rule. It is a smart low budget movie that had good box office numbers, but there are dozens of good movies released this year that will not generate anything like that revenue. How about Columbus, Step, The Big Sick... that's just relatively recent ones I can pick off the list, there are a lot more.