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The way we think of things and represent them is always a distortion. To tell the truth we have to lie and make stuff up. For example, it seems pretty obvious that the shortest distance between two points would be a straight line, but on earth, that isn't true. Because the earth is round, the shortest distance is always a curved line. And speaking of lines, the line itself is another example of this kind of simplification. A true line has no thickness and therefore would be invisible. So, when we draw a line, it isn't really a line - it's a rectangle - but it represents a line.

We suspend our disbelief though. When we watch a film or read a book, it evokes in us the sense of a story that happened in time and space. It evokes in us the perception of something very different from a book or a film or even what can be shown in a book or film. Films are only a couple of hours long, but they generally portray periods of time that are much longer. 

When I watched Adolescence, I noticed that they filmed all the parts that would normally be cut - like, people walking places. I learnt later that that's because they made every episode in single takes, with no cuts, which was quite a technical achievement. I don't know why they did that but when I was watching it I was thinking about how it makes the series more realistic, because life is punctuated with waiting times and walking from one place to another.