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Thumbsucker
2005 · Film · 96 min
Directed by Mike Mills
Justin Cobb, a teenager in suburban Oregon, copes with his thumb-sucking problem, romance, and his diagnosis with ADHD and subsequent experience using Ritalin.
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There is science behind this -- and the article mentions it later -- but Walter Kirn is a fiction writer and essayist rather than science/feature reporter. So this is a narrative and meditation on the topic, rather than survey or policy paper.
I thought the characterization of extreme multitasking and availability as a sort of 'attention bubble' likely to pop was interesting.
Then again, I enjoyed Kirn's novel 'Up in the Air', as well as the movie adaptation of his novel 'Thumbsucker'. And another of his articles at Atlantic, 'Lost in the Meritocracy', is a vivid and cynical look at his Princeton years that could interest News.YCers... if they have the attention span. :)