The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions considers what’s ‘realistic’ in what we read v what we watch …
This week’s question: travel broadens the mind – what other sayings are patently false?
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ost films are limited in how they display thought – often just through the facial expressions and actions of actors. Most novels, though, describe in great detail characters’ inner thoughts. So films, in a way, are more mysterious, because you don’t exactly know what people are thinking. So doesn’t that make them in fact more realistic? Ash Ahmed, by email
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