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The Theatrical Success of ‘Anyone but You’ Sends a Message: Has Streaming Become a Form of Stockholm Syndrome?
The theatrical success of 'Anyone But You' sends a message: Why are we still acting like streaming could save movies?
“Anyone but You” is just a synthetic romance with some frisson, yet it delivers something you can’t get at home: the electricity of watching two people fall in love, and fight about it, surrounded by an audience that can relate exactly to what’s going on. Or is it that on some level Netflix wants to take these films off the table, so that some of the biggest potential breakout indie hits of the year end up not being audience movies at all? We shouldn’t be turning the genuine positives of streaming into a form of Stockholm Syndrome, where we bow down in worship to the very force that, more than not, is helping to crush the life out of cinema.
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