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Why Realism is boring

Today I would like to tell everyone a secret, a secret I have quite frankly hidden for a great part of my life. I am secretly very, very , fond of rom-coms. They’re just amazing, with like a no-brainer plot, a bit of angst, tons of fluff and all of that wrapped in an assured happy ending. Who doesn’t like that. I don’t know about others but usually when I watch a movie, I watch it because it’s fun and it’s something different. No one watches a movie to learn stuff, you watch a documentary for that (also they are boring (for some reason David Attenborough doesn’t fit this but whatever)). Realism is this idea of taking real life experiences and having people watch that real thing for some intellectual purpose. Well the thing is I don’t really fancy getting out my life of being a high schooler (real stressful I know), to watch a movie about the realities of poverty or what nor. I want a movie with drama, and useless dialogue so that I don’t have to use my brain. Is that too much to ask? N...