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Question
Would you please tell me why whenever you watch a TV show or a
movie and someone dies or gets killed and you see someone else
cry in that TV show or movie because there friend died or got
killed. you start to cry too
Thanks
C Barwick
Well it's this thing called "suspension of disbelief" it means that when you're watching a tv show or movie you think that what you are seeing is real, therefore you react as if it was a realistic situation, and when people die in real life we normally get upset, and that is usually the goal of the filmmaker, to make us feel connected to the people on screen and love them like our dearest friends. I hope this helps you and thanks for your question!
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