I’m especially thinking of some bizzare foreign horror movies that didn’t make sense to me and I figure there’s gotta be some from my own (US) culture that just make 0 sense outside of the context of having been raised in this culture.

  • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org
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    I was once at my girlfriend’s parents house over Christmas. We stayed there for a few days. They had their own Christmas traditions, like most families. Some of them, they really thought they were the only family doing it, some of them more out there. One of them is watching that alien movie: encounters of the 3rd kind. At least i think it was that one. I knew what the movie was about, but i have never seen it, or at least not the whole movie.

    They were SUPER into it, to me it was just an old movie. After the movie they talked about the movie, like they do every year. At some point i had to take the temperature a bit and was like: “but it’s just a movie… Not a documentary.” That is where i messed up, because they all thought that it’s a “real” movie.