We’ve all used our weeks-long coronavirus quarantines for a variety of pursuits: family bonding, meditation, counting down the days until we’re no longer in this God-forsaken quarantine.
But as our list of confinement activities starts to dwindle, perhaps we can get inspired by the movies. Nobody does productive loneliness quite like film characters, whether it’s Luke Skywalker abandoning his Jedi roots on a craggy island or Norma Desmond working on her comeback screenplay and hosting monkey funerals.
Being in a movie, these folks can’t just laze about watching Netflix all day like an average schlub. They get stuff done, and so can you.