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title: Why don’t movies feel “real” anymore?
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date: 2026-03-24
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🍿 **[Why don’t movies feel “real” anymore?](https://youtu.be/tvwPKBXEOKE)** 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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