Dave Chappelle once made a similar observation about the power of slow motion to make everything look cool, but here Unreality seems concerned with a much deeper meta-narrative truth, whereby things rendered onscreen invariably look more appealing than they do in everyday experience. A helpful illustration of this concept from their listicle of 5 Movie Scenes That Are Never So Cool in Real Life is this scene from the car chase movie, The Transporter, contrasted with an actual car chase after the jump.

Transporter Car Chase

Real Life Car Chase

See? Not nearly as cool.