In 2025, the streaming economy has become what Boyle warned us about. You don’t own movies anymore. You rent access to a rotating catalog. Services delist films without warning. Physical media is dying. When a film like T2 —a meditation on lost youth and the impossibility of going home—becomes inaccessible to the very generation that grew up on it, where are you supposed to go?
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