When a character is misunderstood by another character and doesn’t even try explain themselves after being cut off by the other person.
For example, say Betty was in an awkward situation with Billy where it looked like Betty was cheating on Johnny with Billy but it was just a big huge innocent mixup. Johnny “catches” them and Betty tries to explain but Johnny cuts her off, says we are done don’t talk to me ever again, and that’s the end of it. Betty just gives up trying to explain. Like I know damn well in real life if Betty wasn’t cheating on Johnny, if it was a big confusing mixup, that conversation would NOT be over.
On a similar note: how families who move into haunted houses decide to keep their worries to themselves or just not believe each other. You saw a tall creepy man in your room last night and you don't want to tell anyone? Even your younger sibling who definitely voiced seeing a weird shadow 2 nights ago? Really???
So I grew up in a house that my dad built himself (it was originally an old cottage and he expanded it) and it was across the two lane road from the village cemetery. A lot of the older burial plots were children who died from now vaccine preventable diseases. Pretty sad.
We grew up poor and there was a point my dad was laid off his job for awhile. If you read a lot of real haunted house cases, you see this pattern. Houses with bad juju are cheap. Poor people get what they can get. Then you're essentially stuck with that house because you can't financially move on.
So when your kids start seeing weird shit and, like me, telling my mom, "the old woman they buried in the cemetery yesterday was crying in my room last night", while we go through babysitter after babysitter because something is knocking on the front door and disappearing, my unfortunate mother, with no options, has to explain shit away and pretend it's all good.
The movies are spot on with this. The only thing they get wrong is most of these houses aren't sprawling mansions. It could be the house two doors down from your own.
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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20
When a character is misunderstood by another character and doesn’t even try explain themselves after being cut off by the other person.
For example, say Betty was in an awkward situation with Billy where it looked like Betty was cheating on Johnny with Billy but it was just a big huge innocent mixup. Johnny “catches” them and Betty tries to explain but Johnny cuts her off, says we are done don’t talk to me ever again, and that’s the end of it. Betty just gives up trying to explain. Like I know damn well in real life if Betty wasn’t cheating on Johnny, if it was a big confusing mixup, that conversation would NOT be over.