If you take a human and strip away thought; The experience; imagination; suspense; reality; a little suffering for the greater experience; living in the moment; a touch of endeavour and human sacrifice … and replace it with a smartphone … you get a modern teenager / youth.
I sometimes wonder if modern molecular gastronomy and all it’s sensory overload is not the food equivalent of your movie experience. Nothing is left to imagination any more - we all (apparently) need shepherding to a common goal.