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Double screening: how Hollywood embraced Instagram — theguardian.com

In the 17th-century Massachusetts Bay colony, they used visions of specters to root out alleged consorts of Satan. In the new film Assassination Nation, the only fuel a modern witch-hunt needs is Instagram. The photo-sharing social media app plays a central role in Sam Levinson’s debut feature, which plunges a fictitious version of Salem into lawless chaos following a mass leak of the township’s private data. The script is conversant in the online language of whatever we’ve chosen to call the generation succeeding the millennials, and it recognizes Instagram as their combination podium, proscenium and proving ground. Absent-mindedly scrolling through the infinite feed of hyperspeed food prep videos and puppy pictures eventually comes to feel like a medium of being, water to the fish. Among many other things, it’s a fragile social ecosystem that can be thrown into violent disarray by the ugly truth.

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