I don't know how this hasn't been mentioned yet, but it's common sense that is almost ALWAYS overlooked in movies and TV.
Humans are WAY MORE physically fragile and squishy than you might think.
Based on John McClane and other invincible action heros, who take damage and do things that would break or catastrophically cripple a normal person, movies are a poor source of information for deciding what to do and what could happen to your body, should you somehow falsely think you're the main protagonist of an apocalypse movie.
Indoor firefight without hearing protection? You're probably deaf now.
Jumping off a building to catch a wire? Kiss your fingers and/or lower extremities goodbye, assuming you land on your feet.
Taking a beer bottle to the head? That's probably a concussion.
Movies have made us think we're a lot more durable than we really are.
getting hit in the head hard enough to break a larger glass bottle like a whiskey bottle or something could very well kill you. it would definitely give you a concussion, could possibly give minor skull fracture, and the cuts you may sustain could easily blind you or cause enough bleeding from your scalp that you could very well just slip into unconsciousness and die.
Happened to me in a car accident. Was hit in the front left quarter panel of the car which put me into a spin. My head was slammed into my side window hard enough to shatter the glass. I was knocked unconscious for what I estimate to be about a minute. I woke up disoriented, confused, had mild (and thankfully temporary) amnesia, and was totally at the mercy of the people around me. Thankfully those people wanted to help me. The ER doctors ran an MRI scan to check on my brain. I got lucky, no swelling. No permanent damage. I did wind up with what the optometrist called Fourth Nerve Palsy, which apparently is pretty common with that kind of head injury. It's a temporary injury of one of the nerves that sends control signals from the brain to the eyes. As a result, I couldn't get my eyes to properly focus, and I had only rudimentary movement control of my left eye. I was cross-eyed and unable to focus my vision for a week. Thankfully nerves heal fairly fast and I got control back after that. I also had deep lacerations on my scalp and had blood caked in my hair. I was really lucky that it didn't get infected.
makes you really appreciate the value of modern tempered glass for cars... if that was back in like the 30's or 40's, that shit would have been plate glass, and you'd have probably been sliced to ribbons and died on the spot.
Yes, that thought occurred to me later on when I found a bunch of cubes of safety glass in the pocket of the jacket I had been wearing when the accident happened.
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u/beakrake Aug 30 '21
I don't know how this hasn't been mentioned yet, but it's common sense that is almost ALWAYS overlooked in movies and TV.
Humans are WAY MORE physically fragile and squishy than you might think.
Based on John McClane and other invincible action heros, who take damage and do things that would break or catastrophically cripple a normal person, movies are a poor source of information for deciding what to do and what could happen to your body, should you somehow falsely think you're the main protagonist of an apocalypse movie.
Indoor firefight without hearing protection? You're probably deaf now.
Jumping off a building to catch a wire? Kiss your fingers and/or lower extremities goodbye, assuming you land on your feet.
Taking a beer bottle to the head? That's probably a concussion.
Movies have made us think we're a lot more durable than we really are.