Two Screens, One Corner
The man on the corner had his phone in one hand and a child’s white puffa coat over the other arm, which tells you roughly how the morning was going. Across the square a woman stood next to the brick wall in the same posture, head down, thumb moving. They weren’t together, so the matching was just chance.
Twenty years ago they’d have stood there bored. Nobody under that age remembers a world without mobile screens. My first one was the Samsung Galaxy S2. I loved that phone!
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20 years ago they might have been smoking.
In film the flare of a match and a puff of smoke has provided atmosphere, a visual pointer, and there is business around it to allow actors some scope.
The mobile phone has replaced some of that, but may be more difficult to use in such ways?
A trope or two may evolve.
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