Why Are You Reading the Movie? | Subtitle Dependence and the Slow Death of Visual Literacy
Subtitles interfere with that speed. They introduce a secondary authority at the bottom of the frame, a running strip of managerial text that keeps whispering: here is what was said, here is what matters, here is the line, do not worry, we have pre processed the moment for you. Even when the viewer reads quickly, the eye performs a commute. Down, up. Down, up. Sentence, face. Sentence, gesture. Se