User:Skakkle/films are fake

Let's never forget, that fiction films are elaborate artificial constructions. The audience can be made to suspend disbelief in many ways. In fact, they may suspend it by default, and only certain jarring elements within a story can be enough to knock that disbelief back into place.

Irish singing

Julia Roberts trying to sing some kind of ill-defined traditional Irish tune near the beginning of the film Michael Collins is one of the most glaring examples of such a jarring display of artificiality. Now, you can present something super fake like that. Fine. But to surround her with at least one real (Northern) Irishman [Neeson] and a few presumably true Irish extras and have them pretend like it's a real beautiful rural display of Irish culture- that's what offends me. And I'm frikkin American.