The Realities of Reality

The nature of reality in cinema is an interesting subject to broach. Obviously, the goal of any filmmaker is to create an onscreen reality the audience will accept with minimal intellectual discomfort. We are asked as the audience to accept that the characters and plot as being plausible; that things could be real even if they are on the fringes of possibility.
However, as Chion has pointed out, the reality of the film sometimes breaks the reality of life in order to make the cinematic reality more real to the audience. Apparently, our immersion in the film is more important than staying true to the reality of life. This isn’t an amazing revelation because, as an audience, we watch a film to get something besides reality or above and beyond the constraints of real life reality.
As the example Dr. Twombly gave us showed, certain aspects of filmmaking and story telling would not hold up to real life. Two characters whispering to each other in order to not be heard is a commonplace story telling device but, if the audience cannot hear what they are talking about, it jars us out of the immerged reality we have accepted. If the audience does not act as an outside observer, then we cannot follow the plot or the meanings behind the film. In fact, I would argue are lack of “true” reality in film allows us to enjoy films much more.