We've all got those moments in movies that hit us the wrong way - clichés that never fail to bug you and take you out of the movie. Sometimes it's when the movie is trying to depict something you have personal knowledge of - it never fails to bother me how movies think daily news journalism actually works - and sometimes it's saying something small about the world we live in, and getting it weirdly wrong.
And while there's loads of cinematic clichés that really annoy with their ubiquity, the one that always bothers me is where someone - usually in some kind of serious crime business - throws armfuls of money up in the air, and everybody loses their minds trying to grab it so our protagonist can make an easy getaway.
It's like the sight of money drives people crazy, but if you drop something in real life and somebody grabbed it and walked away, you'd consider that theft, and rightly so.
Like, there might be the thrill of free money over-ruling all rationality, but it's not free, you're just straight up stealing it, and with the predominance of cameras everyhwere in your life, you could get prosecuted for a few measly bucks, which seems risky.
When I've seen people accidentally drop their shit in the street, they haven't had to scoop it all up before human vultures descend on it. If anything, the vast majority of people nearby will want to help, because they genuinely want to. That's the kind of reality I see, not this silly cliché of animalistic fervor for dead presidents in the sky.
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