What’s Aged the Best?
Its predictions about neighborhood change, online courtship, chat rooms, apartment and clothing style, and catfishing are said to hold up.
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- Kathleen's warning about chains erasing the experience of New York is compared with the later replacement of neighborhood stores by national retail and banks.
- The movie's independent-store-versus-chain story is judged newly relevant because Barnes & Noble later faced the same pressure represented by Fox Books.
- Romantic partners now routinely meet through online text, fulfilling the film's central premise.
- The over-thirty chat room is compared with modern Slack communities, making the old interface less obsolete than it appears.
- Kathleen's sunny Upper West Side apartment and practical clothes are described as fashionable again after a roughly twenty-year cycle.
- The mistaken online identity is treated as part of the old dramatic lineage that became modern catfishing.