Great analysis! I saw this movie on a whim when my job got cancelled for the day and I had a free afternoon and I was blown away. It really gets under your skin and leaves you wondering what will happen next. I read an interview of David Robert Mitchell where he said one of the things he was trying to do was to make is a "dateless" movie. Meaning the technology, cars, and town itself could be in any generation so the movie would last through time and the clamshell e reader was actually a makeup mirror!