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I remember the hush before discovery—theaters still exhaling their last patrons, the posters still sticky on lamp posts—and then the first screenshot arrived, a jagged frame captured from a borrower's camcorder, edges cropped, color washed. In that pixelated thumbnail the lead's eyes seemed to plead not to be reduced. Yet the plea dissolved into the share: a tap, a forward, a download bar that crawled like an insect, unhurried and hungry.