You can't let your brain slip into neutral with this story a sly look at your phone and you are lost. Underneath the slow pace is a torrent of detail and menace. No dozing waiting for next chase sequence, you need to stay sharp.
I like it but you need to be in the right frame of mind I.e. Prepared .
I would say you've identified a key reason why some viewers are confused when they watch TTSS. Many people nowadays are not used to staying alert and paying complete attention to every detail in a movie. In this era of feature films about comic-book characters, most movies simply do not require that kind of attention on the part of the viewer. But in TTSS, every detail is significant: every glance, every word, and every object on which the camera focuses. The story resides in the "torrent of detail" you mentioned. There is no exposition purely for the distracted or absentminded.
When I visit the cinema nowadays, which I do less and less often, I see people checking their phones throughout the movie, reading texts and writing texts, leaving the theater and coming back to their seats, eating noisy snacks, chatting with their dates/families, and so on. I have to wonder how much they even like movies, since they seem to have no respect for the movie presentation or for their fellow moviegoers.
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