18 years later, *The Matrix* remains a near-perfect movie. Screw "hard sci-fi." What counts is emotional truth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix#/media/File:The_Matrix_Poster.jpg … …
E.g. consoling yourself by saying death is natural, trying to convince yourself you don't want to live, is an emotional generalized-lie.
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It's not a lie because there's a True emotion written on stone, but because there's a more fitting answer you're motivated to overlook.
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How big a deviation do you see between stories that "fit" in your sense vs those that feel compelling, pull you in, make you identify, etc.
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When people have always heard xyd but are ready to hear wyz, showing them wyz is one powerful method to achieve compellingness and empathy.
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By this method I can show you a character who is more like yourself than you are.
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