"With ever-shrinking attention spans, film students today are struggling to make it to the end of a feature-length movie without getting distracted by their phones. That's according to a recent article by The Atlantic's Rose Horowitch. In a snippet that has since circulated on X, gaining nearly 2 million views since it was posted last week, one of the film studies professors interviewed by Horowitch recalled asking his students about the ending of the 1962 François Truffaut film Jules and Jim."
""More than half of the class picked one of the wrong options, saying that characters hide from the Nazis (the film takes place during World War I) or get drunk with Ernest Hemingway (who does not appear in the movie)," the screenshot read. The film has a run time of 1 hour and 45 minutes. Naturally, much hand-wringing ensued online. "I'm so confused. You kind of have to go out of your way to take a film studies course, right?," one X user asked."
Attention spans among film students are shrinking, causing many to fail to complete feature-length films without distraction from phones. In one class more than half of students answered an ending quiz about the 1962 François Truffaut film Jules and Jim incorrectly, selecting false plot points such as hiding from Nazis or drinking with Ernest Hemingway. The film's runtime is 1 hour and 45 minutes. Students reportedly do not look up plots they miss, leading to basic comprehension failures on in-class quizzes. Social-media reactions ranged from confusion to concern. Increased second-screening habits and a rise in casual, background-friendly TV and film genres are linked to the attention problem.
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