The nature of art is very clearly rooted in communication. From artist to audience, an idea or feeling is sent and received.
Quite often, I feel less than partial to either the content or the presentation of an artist’s message. For instance, a film may come along which has a sweet idea, but which bores me to tears. Or a game which has some attractive promise turns out to be nothing but hollow, vacuous manipulation at its heart. We all know this feeling.
Because of this, I tend to drop anything which loses my faith. I’ll quit a film after five minutes. Most games I only make it about an hour into. I’ll shut a book at any time, for any reason, and never pick it up again.
I wonder if there’s some better method, but the truth is that my time is valuable, as is my attention!