Perfect Days: the toilet cleaner has a humble and fulfilling life but there’s no way he can be happy with his low status job
Past Lives: Korean woman struggles when her childhood sweetheart shows up in America despite her having a new man; if she still loved her old flame she’d just ditch the new guy
The Master: Cult leader finds animalistic man interesting/arousing but they are not intellectual peers
Parasite: Poor family stumble upon a dark secret after ingratiating themselves with a rich family but the rich family should be too clever to fall for their scheme and are generally better than them
Casablanca: Humphrey Bogart is supposed to be in love but he lets her go for some reason
Brief Encounter: Married woman has emotional affair with a stranger on a train but doesn’t act on her feelings for some reason
Rashomon: None of the characters can agree on what happened even though some events must have objectively happened
2001 Space Odyssey: Super intelligent AI is outsmarted by humans it is supposed to be more clever than
Alien: Perfect killing machine fails to kill everyone
Goodfellas: Gangster gets his commuppance despite the film establishing in the first half that he’s a winner
The Exorcist: Ancient demon is supposed to be the ultimate evil but is defeated
Grave of the Fireflies: Child starves despite knowing they are eating mud balls instead of rice - they should have just eaten rice
Big Fish: Man reconciles with estranged father after falling out with him over tall tales by becoming immersed in more tall tales
I could go on but I think I’ve demonstrated my superior media literacy with the examples I’ve given already. Movie makers need to start portraying evil as winning, humans as uncomplicated and magic as not being real to improve their artform.
Agree that somehow these movies all come out in the wash despite these blunders.
They should take a look at TV shows which prioritise realism in the future: The Wire features reporters making up serial killers and Nation of Islam assassins; both of which are just every day facts of the street. Characters are named after catchphrases they use, I.e. prop Joe, and they never get tired of saying these catchphrases. Small details but it is REALISM. The world has been brought to life.
See also, a middle aged man successfully taking on an entire cartel in Breaking Bad. Everyone knows that criminals are stupid and a sufficiently motivated vigilante can run rings around them. They’ve EARNED my trust with attention to detail like this plotline and the main character’s wife nagging him.
Perfect Days: the toilet cleaner has a humble and fulfilling life but there’s no way he can be happy with his low status job
Past Lives: Korean woman struggles when her childhood sweetheart shows up in America despite her having a new man; if she still loved her old flame she’d just ditch the new guy
The Master: Cult leader finds animalistic man interesting/arousing but they are not intellectual peers
Parasite: Poor family stumble upon a dark secret after ingratiating themselves with a rich family but the rich family should be too clever to fall for their scheme and are generally better than them
Casablanca: Humphrey Bogart is supposed to be in love but he lets her go for some reason
Brief Encounter: Married woman has emotional affair with a stranger on a train but doesn’t act on her feelings for some reason
Rashomon: None of the characters can agree on what happened even though some events must have objectively happened
2001 Space Odyssey: Super intelligent AI is outsmarted by humans it is supposed to be more clever than
Alien: Perfect killing machine fails to kill everyone
Goodfellas: Gangster gets his commuppance despite the film establishing in the first half that he’s a winner
The Exorcist: Ancient demon is supposed to be the ultimate evil but is defeated
Grave of the Fireflies: Child starves despite knowing they are eating mud balls instead of rice - they should have just eaten rice
Big Fish: Man reconciles with estranged father after falling out with him over tall tales by becoming immersed in more tall tales
I could go on but I think I’ve demonstrated my superior media literacy with the examples I’ve given already. Movie makers need to start portraying evil as winning, humans as uncomplicated and magic as not being real to improve their artform.
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Every Jackie Chan film: he claims he doesn’t want to fight or have any trouble but then ends up kicking a tonne of ass
You forgot a few.
Iron Man: Plot revolves around a man who is clearly made of flesh having his fleshy, non-iron, body break down on him.
Wizard of Oz: Despite there being multiple witches, there are, in fact, no wizards at all in the movie.
Titanic: The ship is clearly established as being unsinkable early in the movie. However, later in the movie, it sinks.
They’re all pretty good movies despite the blatant plot holes.
Agree that somehow these movies all come out in the wash despite these blunders.
They should take a look at TV shows which prioritise realism in the future: The Wire features reporters making up serial killers and Nation of Islam assassins; both of which are just every day facts of the street. Characters are named after catchphrases they use, I.e. prop Joe, and they never get tired of saying these catchphrases. Small details but it is REALISM. The world has been brought to life.
See also, a middle aged man successfully taking on an entire cartel in Breaking Bad. Everyone knows that criminals are stupid and a sufficiently motivated vigilante can run rings around them. They’ve EARNED my trust with attention to detail like this plotline and the main character’s wife nagging him.