I would like to add that our brains work so that if you see stuff in a movie there is a good chance that a decade later your brain will present it as "something that likely happened / you know about"
people need to read books and do research. I don't want to live in a world where every 80 year old thinks they were in Squid Game
This is something I've thought a lot about recently as well. It doesn't help that media literacy is an at all time low, and movies are more concerned with being based on a true story!!!!! as opposed to just telling a story. Every time I tell my dad about a movie he asks me if it's something that happened in real life, and even if I tell him no he asks if it could have happened in real life. Movies aren't real ffs, and that's not the point of movies either.
To some extent I think it's a consequence of the lack of media literacy. It used to be that if you read a novel or watched a play, those mediums had enough limits that you'd sort of intuitively pick up on the fact that it's an abstraction. But the medium of film is free to get arbitrarily close to the real, and when filmmakers don't have to bother putting themes and subtext in their movie (or audiences have forgotten to even try to look for those things), so they'd rather entertain audiences by offering an image of reality that lends itself very well to the creation of propaganda.
people need to read books and do research. I don't want to live in a world where every 80 year old thinks they were in Squid Game
I personally did free the world from the combine, though
Hey I remember doing that, so it must have happened!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKb7Hyus5-Y
This is something I've thought a lot about recently as well. It doesn't help that media literacy is an at all time low, and movies are more concerned with being
based on a true story!!!!! as opposed to just telling a story. Every time I tell my dad about a movie he asks me if it's something that happened in real life, and even if I tell him no he asks if it could have happened in real life. Movies aren't real ffs, and that's not the point of movies either.
To some extent I think it's a consequence of the lack of media literacy. It used to be that if you read a novel or watched a play, those mediums had enough limits that you'd sort of intuitively pick up on the fact that it's an abstraction. But the medium of film is free to get arbitrarily close to the real, and when filmmakers don't have to bother putting themes and subtext in their movie (or audiences have forgotten to even try to look for those things), so they'd rather entertain audiences by offering an image of reality that lends itself very well to the creation of propaganda.