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- Feb 2021
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astralcodexten.substack.com astralcodexten.substack.com
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famous movie review which describes the Wizard of Oz as: “Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with three strangers to kill again.”
This is a great example of context collapse. It's factually true, but almost no one who's seen it would describe it this way.
It's reminiscent of how advertising and politics can twist meaning. Another great example is the horror cut of Disney's Frozen trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIMk1_wwxz8
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