Comment by pier25

10 hours ago

> It's not that I suffer from a short attention span, it's that there's nothing to pay attention to.

There is definitely something. Nothing to pay attention to would be a silent black screen.

Sure, technically speaking.

And if I had great interest in the minutiae of set design, or if I were a score composer interested in the exact musical instrumentation, or a director studying suspenseful timing, then sure I'd be interested.

But I'm not any of those things. I prefer to spend my time on things I'm actually interested in, rather than on things I'm not. If I can fast-forward the "not" part, it makes life better.

  • Well yeah but "there's nothing that interests me" vs "there's nothing to pay attention to" are very different statements.

    Also you don't really need to be a composer to be able to enjoy film music during a film.