Finding the Lost Generation on a Stroll through Paris

By Jackson Lanzer
Every day was the same. Wake up. Sit in bed. Open my laptop. Stare at a Zoom screen until my focus blurs and my mind wanders. And repeat. Over and over for a year and a half.
But just because I was trapped in my room, didn’t mean that I didn’t dream. I started watching a film every day. It was my escape from the dull, monotonous reality that had become my junior and senior year of high school. One movie in particular transported me from my room to a world that felt forever out of reach: Midnight in Paris.
Midnight in Paris is a film about Gil, a screenwriter turned novelist (...