It is common now for people to insist about their experience of a violent event in which they were caught up—a plane crash, a shoot-out, a terrorist bombing—that “it seemed like a movie.” This is said, other descriptions seeming insufficient, in order to explain how real it was.
This seems like a delibeeate misreadinf of the phenomenon. Ppl sarhis not to say so.mething felt real but to say it felt unreal. Likesomething that only happens in fiction.
