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And isn't that better than checking a box?

I realized I was treating cinema like a checklist. I was watching Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels (a 3.5-hour film of a woman doing chores) not to experience it, but to beat it. I had become a film accountant, not a film fan. Here is where the book redeems itself. 1001 movies you must see before you die book

For every soul-crushing Russian epic ( Andrei Rublev ) that you feel obliged to watch, there are five gems that the algorithm would never show you. And isn't that better than checking a box

That was three years ago. I have since accepted that I will likely die having seen only 600 of them. And you know what? I’m happier for it. I had become a film accountant, not a film fan

Without this book, I would have watched Stranger Things season four for the third time. Instead, I discovered that a movie shot in 28 countries with no CGI exists, and it looks like a dream you had after eating too much cheese.

But if you buy this book as a randomizer —a way to break the algorithm—it is priceless.