Name
The Willingness to Suspend the Disbelief
Description
The suspension of disbelief is crucial for viewers to fully immerse themselves in the worlds created and engage with characters and events. This requires temporarily setting aside skepticism or critical faculties to accept imaginative premises; embracing the fictional (virtual) world, despite knowing it is not real. This suspension is necessary to fully appreciate fantastical or imaginative works. But is it the zeitgeist of our society that we are becoming champions of suspending our skepticism? Are we too easily consumed by stimuli, grasping every second of our attention?
For art, and for the sake of art itself, the suspension of disbelief is indispensable—an act of cooperation between the artist and the viewer that allows fiction to have emotional and intellectual impact.
Willing
Suspend
Disbelieve