Dear Jessica Brennan,
The other night when Dad and I were sitting in the family room watching television, I noticed that even in the shows that appear very true to life, things are quite different in the movies.
In this particular plot, a nice looking young man was driving and he looked over at his wife who had nodded-off and said, “I love watching you sleep”. She did look very pretty, but I laughed right out loud, and it wasn’t a comedy.
I have traveled on enough planes and trains to know that people generally don’t look that good when they sleep. Often they snore and drool, and at least half of them sleep with their mouths hanging open. This is a very popular, loving line in a lot of shows, but I don’t think it really translates into the real world.
Often in western movies the local sharpshooter can fire a hundred bullets without hitting anything. In children’s movies, almost every cat can energetically find its way home even if it is accidentally shipped to Norway in an airtight plastic bin, and in police dramas, every single police chief doubts the best officer in the unit, threatening to fire her at some point in the show if she doesn’t stop challenging the operation.
I really think that a sharpshooter could hit more than a barn door, my cat falls asleep with his face in the kibble bowl, and well, I don’t really know about police chief’s but it doesn’t sound right to me that this could happen on every case. All that threatening would result in a loss of trust.
The most obvious thing that happens in movies though that seems quite unreal, is the part when a lone person, usually with no cell reception, goes after a bad guy, or a ghost into a dark warehouse, cellar or abandoned house. Come on! How does this happen every time? A million viewers shouting, “No”, and yet, here we go again.
I’m never doing that.
It is nice to watch movies where things aren’t too true to life. Most of us get a lot of life in our, well, life, so a little escapism is fun. I love a show called The Durrells about a British family that moves to Corfu. It makes me giggle like crazy and the scenery is spectacular.
Once I saw a movie advertised as “real-life” called, Manchester by the Sea. I had been through a rough day and wanted something light to curl up in front of while Dad had his headphones on.
I thought it was going to be a romantic comedy. Boy was I wrong.
Love Mum
xo
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