Greg Egan on Nostr: For anyone who is accustomed to subtitles, they are the very opposite of distracting. ...

For anyone who is accustomed to subtitles, they are the very opposite of distracting. On rare occasions they're poorly done (bad translations, or insufficient contrast between the text and the background), but in most cases they’re like a magical heads-up display that grants you the power to understand, effortlessly, what the actors are saying without losing any of the expressiveness of the original performance.