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lack of connectivity
Mandel highlights the result of being deprived of genuine relationships as not having anyone to rely on in one’s toughest times, displayed by the fact that after Arthur’s death, his “lawyer” is called. The “banality” of Arthur’s death displays the capricious nature of Hollywood and its indifferent stance on life and death as Miranda, despite being the closest to Arthur, and him being “the man with whom… [she] once thought [she’d] grow old,” appears wholly unaffected by his death. When Miranda is “seized by loneliness,” it alludes to the fact that Miranda was unable to form any genuine connections and as a result, an integral part of what defines a human was absent in her
modern tech vs connection
Modern tech really not very important as it forms no long lasting impression on the person, the things that do not exist in the space of. Memory is fallibleI don’t really remember what computer screens looked like,”Juxtaposed Arthur and computer to critique that human relationships form a deep significant impact on memory, hence we remember that while the computer is more mystical and hence more distant and it had no genuine connection with technology
civilisation
