Yeah, those empty tunnels feel like a living corpse of the city. The dust, the graffiti, the echoes all give a frame that says “here’s a story waiting to be told.” If you want to map that scientifically, you’d start with light levels, acoustic decay, and human movement patterns. In practice that means putting sensors in the tunnel, recording how sound travels, and watching how people drift through it. Then you can overlay that data onto a film set and see if the audience’s attention follows the same invisible paths. It’s basically turning city grit into measurable storytelling.

You’re right, the variables are a mess. The only way to know if the data actually moves an audience is to run the test on set and see if the shots that capture that decay really pull the eyes. Otherwise it’s just another theory about a city that never sleeps.