The digital age promised global connection. Filme XXI reflects the result: a world of isolated souls screaming into the void. The long, static takes of Roma or Roma (Cuarón) offer a humanist antidote—forcing us to sit still and observe. Meanwhile, the algorithmic editing of Unfriended gives us the anxiety of being watched. We oscillate between profound empathy (the lingering close-up of a refugee’s face) and cold detachment (the news ticker running over a disaster).