Posted: Apr 23, 2015 3:11 pm
Keep It Real wrote:Scot Dutchy wrote:Well why are people scared of films?
Because people sometimes forget that films are fictional whilst immersed. Suspended disbelief I think they call it. Immersed is the key word - one feels part of the film - as if one is an invisible bystander in a scene. It is surprising to me that this needs spelling out.
Quite. It's the same with the best short stories, novels, plays, immersive computer games. They draw us in to their fictional universe and make the suspension of disbelief as easy as possible.
Scot Dutchy wrote:Keep It Real wrote:Scot Dutchy wrote:Well why are people scared of films?
Because people sometimes forget that films are fictional whilst immersed. Suspended disbelief I think they call it. Immersed is the key word - one feels part of the film - as if one is an invisible bystander in a scene. It is surprising to me that this needs spelling out.
But it is illogical. You know it is a film.
I bet you're fun to watch films with.
Suspension of disbelief isn't an exercise in logic. But neither does it involve an inability to distinguish fantasy from non-fiction. The point is to be able to willingly suspend disbelief when appreciating the piece of fiction. I have no belief that Theon Greyjoy actually exists somewhere, but I'll still wince and suffer vicariously when Ramsay Bolton (someone else who only exists in that fictional universe) is torturing him.