When it comes to movies we are often deceived by clichés. As an example, scene where a man is walking away from an explosion completely unscathed. In reality, the man’s back would be burnt quite severely.
As for media, we’re heavily deceived/influenced based on the bias and or the author’s self-authenticized word. For example, I remember reading a post on Quora talking about the lies/negativity of social media. In the post it discussed how a single person claimed that the picture they posted was an image of an Iranian boy who was shot by a soldier after peaceful protest. This image had gained traction across the internet as a legitimate photo and people created a ruckus over it demanding for justice. Fortunately, it wasn’t real, upon further inspection it was revealed to be an old movie that no one knew about due to lack of translation. All of this transpired just because someone wanted internet fame. Rather than spreading real news, they took advantage of the unknown and bent the movie into their lying will.
So yes, due to certain medias there are times we confuse fiction with reality.
But I do believe that the physical world we live in is real. Because it’s how you perceive the world that you can ascertain what reality it is. Reality for one person can be “eat, work, sleep, repeat” for another it can be “relax, cherish friends and family, and live life to the fullest” and etc. It’s hard to make sense of what I’m trying to say, but it can be thought of as this. The physical world is our sandbox and what we make out of the sand is our reality. One can make a castle and the other could make a city building.
As for how this relates back to the Allegory of the Cave, considering that the cavemen only see shadows as their only source of information is not much different in my examples regarding movies and that Quora post. To the general population, the depictions of that movie explosion or false news is the shadows we see. And the people who look more into the technicalities of things is the cave man who exited the cave and found true knowledge. But no matter how much that person tries to spread the truth, there would be little effect to change the masses mind about the misinformation.
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I really enjoyed reading this post about how we are affected by what we see through movies and media. I’ve come across similar posts on social media regarding miscommunication of news vs unrealistic news, and ultimately, people may not believe things completely, but they’ll put in the effort to care about it enough to search for more answers. This leads me to believe that, we are partially influenced by what we see. The example you used at the beginning when the explosion took place. There is no way that man is going to come outunscathed, but because it is a movie, they have the chance the portray it that way. I feel like whenever we get those reminders on the stunt shows like “Do not attempt this at home” are actually helpful, because people see stunts that they think they can try, but it just turns out all bad.
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