At least in the combat footage, there's that sense of things already having been decided, that you're just watching the last extremity of a thousand small steps. The environment is often ruined, looking like a place where people die, the faces are dour or blank, and it all serves to prepare you mentally for what you know is about to happen.

But to be on a normal city street, just going out on a sunny day with your family or friends, and suddenly a uniformed government squad circle around you like vultures and present you for the first time with an inevitable, violent, pointless death, right there outside the smoothie place, and just like that your world is over.