: As noted by contemporary cultural critics, the "sameness" of our digital experiences—the same apps, the same filtered aesthetics—can make these personal tragedies feel universal yet oddly hollow.

The screen in the film fizzled. The camera slowly panned around the man’s chair. As it rotated, the view shifted to show the back of the man’s head, and beyond him, the room’s door.

He slowly opened the door and walked into his dark hallway. He reached for the light switch, but his hand brushed against something cold and metallic resting on the wall beside the frame.