Why Can’t You Just Watch the Movie?

There two kinds of people in the world: the people who divide the world into two kinds of people, and the people who don’t. (**Rimshot**)

Okay: Among the many binary categorizations of humans, one that I run into a lot is: people who want to figure out why a story works, and people who don’t. And these two kinds of people can really get up each other’s noses. Say I’ve gone to see Revenge of the Really Bad Monster Movie From Your Childhood with a passel of friends. As we leave the theatre I’m h...