"Filmmaking is essentially the art of sustaining the suspension of disbelief: from shot to shot, scene to scene."

At the end of the day, real-world constraints of making movies > diegetic consistency.

"Ager’s thesis seem to be: Since Kubrick was a perfectionist, anything that seems like an error in Kubrick’s work must not be an error, but must instead be a deliberate choice... I’m sure there is a more official name, but let’s call this situation the genius fallacy."

Commence using the term "the genius fallacy".