See, to me this sounds like calling someone dishonest for claiming they “had their head in the clouds.” Oh, what’s that, your head wasn’t actually a mile in the air? You god damn liar.
It’s not dishonesty when everyone understands the meaning. If you present an intentional fantasy, the audience knows it’s a fantasy. Everyone is in on it.
I was trusting this same mutual understanding that sometimes you say things you don’t really mean to guide people to understand that I did not mean what I said literally. All movie tropes, like romance tropes and hacking shenanigans, rely on this same contract.
Most dishonest about? The existence of superpowers, probably. People can’t fly in real life, or summon hammers, or shoot webs from their wrists.
See, to me this sounds like calling someone dishonest for claiming they “had their head in the clouds.” Oh, what’s that, your head wasn’t actually a mile in the air? You god damn liar.
It’s not dishonesty when everyone understands the meaning. If you present an intentional fantasy, the audience knows it’s a fantasy. Everyone is in on it.
I was trusting this same mutual understanding that sometimes you say things you don’t really mean to guide people to understand that I did not mean what I said literally. All movie tropes, like romance tropes and hacking shenanigans, rely on this same contract.