Maybe it's that a boombox playing music is more social and open, whereas what someone does with their phone is typically meant to be private, but some people play their music or w/e noise out loud from it as if only they can hear their phone and you're just supposed to pretend they aren't overstepping boundaries.
So, did his phone get enlarged by this process? Or is it forced perspective and the phone is actually really far away from his bug face but close to the viewer, making it appear larger?
I think they meant the phone is beaming the horrific news to their face which is inches away, not that the horrific news is beamed directly to their phone
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