Losing Touch With Reality
I’ve been thinking recently about various forms of entertainment not being realistic. My most recent thought came after talking with some friends about Bruce Willis’ new movie “Live Free or Die Trying”. There was the scene with the jet fighter that pushed the envelope of what could really happen, and for me it was to the point of being distracting.
I know, I somehow disengaged my brain enough to not think about the absolutely horrible luck that Bruce’s character claims by having been caught in these types of situations for four different times.
Getting back to my point though, should TV shows and movies that aren’t obviously fantasy based be more realistic? This question comes into play with CSI: as we think about the CSI effect on viewers and a recent article I read over at BuddyTV.
“With CSI on television, everything has to be done within that one hour time frame, but in real case work, there’s also the actual taking in of evidence, the chain of custody matters that have to be done, then the actual evidence has to be examined by separate examiners,” Pino told The Boston Channel. “The stains have to be identified and once they’re identified they have to be typed up, and each one of these processes can take either days or weeks, depending on which type of testing you’re doing.”
To ask you a few questions:
- Do you really believe that CSI: agents do the things that are shown in the 1-hour episodes each week?
- Do you believe that crime labs and police departments all look at nicely as those do?
- Do you believe that things happen as quickly as they are portrayed on the screens in front of us?
- Do you consciously disconnect from reality so you can just enjoy the show?
Let’s face it. If TV and movies were realistic all the time, they wouldn’t be that entertaining. We’d just be watching different versions of our own lives and let’s face it, there’s a reason we want to escape right?
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