Film
fromThe New Yorker
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A labyrinthine metro station symbolizes a life of extreme tunnel vision in Genki Kawamura's infinity-loop thriller.
Tunnel vision happens when your mind zooms in on a single "threat cue" and filters out everything else. In this case, the threat cue might be: "He was young." "It was cancer." "It seemed sudden." "He probably didn't see it coming." Your mind grabs onto these details and begins building a narrative: "Cancer is everywhere." "People are dying young all the time." "It's inevitable that I'll get something serious." "If I do get sick, there will be nothing I can do."
He said he reacted on instinct, whereas I was thinking about every action and consequence of it, Frost said. When the London Bridge attack unfolded inside the hall on 29 November 2019, Frost said chaos and confusion took hold. There was screaming, noise, no one knew what was going on and I imagine it would have been the same on Bondi Beach.