Why Movies Just Don't Feel "Real" Anymore
- Andy McIlvain
- Nov 24, 2025
- 1 min read
Updated: Nov 25, 2025
Video from Like Stories Of Old
Why Movies Just Don't Feel "Real" Anymore
"Why don't movies feel "real" anymore? A deep dive into the first principles of movie immersion: on perceptual realism, indexicality, haptic visuality, and cinematic qualia.
0:00 Movies don't feel "real" anymore 1:40 Perceptual Realism 8:40 The "Cinematic Look" 12:50 Indexicality 15:50 Haptic Visuality 23:00 Cinematic Qualia 26:29 Contextual Intentionality
from the video introduction
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