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The rise of the\u00a0spoiler alert.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Witness<\/a>

Still from the film Witness for the Prosecution<\/i>, 1957.<\/p><\/div>\n

In all forms of media, the spoiler\u00a0alert has barreled into common usage. It has become necessary because we\u2019re living in an age when information is diffused at such a violent pace. With the privilege of speed comes great sensitivity.<\/p>\n

We no longer read books or watch TV shows and movies for their gestalt; art is now only as powerful as the emotions it exploits. It\u2019s a tragic state of affairs, but it\u2019s likely to get even worse. It\u2019s now within reason to get litigious over spoiling. The blogger \u201cReality Steve\u201d Carbone, whose website has a section dedicated to reality-show\u00a0spoilers<\/a>, has been sued not once but twice for ruining certain seasons of ABC\u2019s The Bachelor<\/em> and its equally insipid sister show,\u00a0The Bachelorette<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s not just the abyss that is reality TV, but narrative entertainment as well. According to a Facebook page called the\u00a0Spoiling Dead, which is dedicated to posting\u00a0spoilers\u00a0about The Walking Dead<\/em>, AMC, the show\u2019s network, threatened legal action for posting accurate predictions about characters on the show. A post there reads \u201cBasically what it all comes down to is if we post our Lucille Victim prediction and we\u2019re right, AMC says they will sue us<\/a>.\u201d It seems only a matter of time before the Supreme Court will be ruling on\u00a0spoilers, making it illegal to reveal the ending of An\u00a0Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge<\/em>\u00a0(Farquhar never escaped) or The Gift of the Magi<\/em>\u00a0(do I even have to tell you?).<\/p>\n

In 1957, Witness for the Prosecution<\/a><\/em>, a film based on a story by Agatha Christie, came to theaters with an ending that packs a wallop, even by today\u2019s standards. (It\u2019s also, you may be relieved to learn, too complicated to spoil in a short parenthetical.) As the final credits roll, a disembodied voice implores the audience to be discreet. \u201cThe management of this theater suggests that for the greater entertainment of your friends who have not yet seen the picture, you will not divulge to anyone the secret of the ending of Witness for the Prosecution<\/em>.\u201d Almost sixty years later, I wonder, has the statute of limitations on this proto\u2013spoiler\u00a0alert run out? The answer is no.<\/p>\n

The semaphore of the\u00a0spoiler\u00a0alert, which is now peppered throughout think pieces and reviews in august publications like The New Yorker<\/em> and the Times<\/em>, has become as familiar as the neuroses it buoys. The phrase is as infantile to read as it to hear said, and it\u2019s now deployed in the real world without a glimmer of irony. I know, because I was recently scolded for revealing what terrible thing\u2014of the many\u2014Donald Trump had said during a Republican presidential debate. \u201cWow. Thanks for ruining it,\u201d I was told by a friend of a friend over a group dinner. He hadn\u2019t been home the night before but had it in mind to watch the highlights reel. Alas, his plans changed. I had spoiled it for him.<\/p>\n

Some pills are hard to swallow, but\u00a0I can attest that spoilers\u00a0are good, that they should be embraced. The Bruce-Willis-is-dead-the-whole-time twist in The Sixth Sense<\/em> was all anyone could talk about in the summer of 1999\u2014I guess no one had seen Jacob\u2019s Ladder<\/em> at the time\u2014and I went into the theater knowing beforehand. I also knew what was in the box<\/a> in Seven<\/em> (Gwyneth Paltrow\u2019s head) and that in The Usual Suspects<\/em> Kevin Spacey is Keyser S\u00f6ze. Despite knowing, I enjoyed them all the same, as much as anyone else. It would be impossible not to. The characters, the dialogue, the mood are what I remember and are the elements that make them infinitely rewatchable. <\/p>\n

Knowing the twist should give us comfort. It promotes greater appreciation in the midst of discovery\u2014and the best things in life will excite whether\u00a0you know what\u2019s going to happen or not. It\u2019s the form that draws and leaves the indelible impression.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

And life is too delicate, too uncertain to let unravel because of a ruined surprise. It requires us to rub shoulders with tragedy, a fact we conveniently ignore. Spoilers, and the ireful response they elicit, aren\u2019t really about the serials of escape we obsess over, but death itself\u2014the only one that matters.<\/p>\n

My mother was diagnosed with breast cancer six months after I was born. The doctors gave her another six months. Spoiler\u00a0alert: she lived to see my third birthday and died soon thereafter. Death is the biggest plot twist of all. To be aware of precisely when and how it will happen would be the ultimate\u00a0spoiler. Acknowledging this permits us to bask in the known.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Charles Curkin is the senior editor of<\/em> Surface and a contributor to\u00a0the <\/em>New York Times. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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