@phantomkitty@mastodon.social that's the thing: you're 100% right. it looks too cinematic to be real. my take is: it doesn't matter if it's real or not, what matters is if we use this yardstick "too cinematic" as our guide to judgment, that means the occasional bizarre real life true event: we reject it. so in our effort to avoid being tricked by fakery, we can wind up rejecting truth