Warp wrote:
> Chambers <ben### [at] pacificwebguycom> wrote:
>> Sounds like a bunch of rationalizations to me.
> 
>   So?
> 
>   What you do you suggest? Explaining the custom with irrational arguments?

Technically, "rationalization" is irrational.

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/09/rationalization.html

:-) I just thought that was an interesting post. Indeed, the whole site 
is pretty interesting.

>   Thus you expect there to be a camera, even though in the fictional
> world depicted in the movie there is no camera.

I was always amused when there are lens-flair effects on things like CG 
movies where you're supposedly looking out the eyes of a character.

>   If the movie aknowledges the existence of the camera, it breaks the
> fourth wall.

Yeah, like lens flairs do for me. :-)

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