10 Surprisingly Realistic Movie Scenes Nobody Saw Coming

The entire conceit of Jeremy Saulnier's low-fi thriller Blue Ruin is that it's a revenge movie from the perspective of a regular dude rather than a well-trained hero-with-a-capital-H.

As a result, protagonist Dwight Evans' (Macon Blair) quest to kill the man who allegedly murdered his parents 20 years prior ends up going spectacularly, repeatedly wrong.

Mid-way through the film, he ends up shot in the leg with a crossbow, and though we've all seen dozens if not hundreds of movies where the hero performs efficient self-surgery with some tweezers, rubbing alcohol, and gauze, in reality it's a little harder than it looks.

Dwight saws most of the crossbow off and then attempts to pull the rest out with some alcohol-soaked pliers, but only causes him more pain as blood continues to pour from the wound.

We then smash-cut to Dwight gingerly stumbling into a hospital where he quickly collapses, only to wake up with the professionals having removed the crossbow and stitched him up.

There's probably a joke in here somewhere about the cost of American healthcare, too.