🍿 Why don’t movies feel “real” anymore? Look, even documentaries are somewhat staged. None of it’s real real. But the goosebumps you get watching a movie sometimes come from “perceptual realism”—when your brain can process what it’s seeing with the same mechanisms it processes daily life. Movies that did this for me lately: Jurassic Park (1993), La Femme Nikita (1990), Isle of Dogs (2018).

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