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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 12 points 13 hours ago

There’s a difference between a movie you want to go see in a theater and the film assigned as classwork by a professor.

Same as if you were told you had to read a book by an author you don’t care for in a writing style that doesn’t click with you snd maybe even from a different time with framing that doesn’t exist today.

It’s work.

Maybe desire to play with a phone and use social media might be an issue, but at least some of these same kids that have a hard time sitting through a film would have doodled, started falling asleep or just daydreamed instead.