10 Annoying Ways Movies Always Get Real Life Wrong
In cinema there are no brands, there's only "beer".
Despite often mirroring real life, movies have always prioritised drama rather than authenticity. In fact, Alfred Hitchcock summed up the medium's relationship to the real world pretty well when he famously described movies as "real life with all the dull bits cut out", so it's no surprise that throughout the years directors and filmmakers have opted to gloss over, idealise or omit entirely less than glamorous everyday things that could drag a movie down.
It's something directors have always done, to the point where cinema didn't even acknowledge that toilets existed until one was shown for the first time onscreen in Psycho. Almost 60 years after the medium was invented.
While a lot of these small breaks from reality can be easily ignored for the sake of allowing a dramatic beat to land or to retain the suspension of disbelief in a narrative though, there are some which constantly crop up no matter the genre, scene or movie that seemingly indicate that filmmakers have no idea how real life actually works.