The movies were infantilizing their audience, Solanka thought, or perhaps the easily infantilizable were drawn to movies of a certain simplified kind. Perhaps daily life, its rush, its overloadedness, just numbed and anesthetized people and they went into the movies' simpler worlds to remember how to feel. As a result, in the minds of many adults, The experience on offer in the movie theaters now felt more real than what was available in the world outside.
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