On a podcast, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon spoke about how modern streaming productions have been influenced by the rise of mobile phones and social media. They discussed how streaming productions are often simplified, with exposition used to spell out what characters are doing so that distracted viewers can still follow along as they scroll through their feeds.
Watching The Last House, directed by Louis Leterrier and written by Matthew Robinson, I was struck by how it deliberately went against that formula. It demands your attention and, for the most part, doesn't bother to explain a lot of what is going on.
