While movies may be fantasy, I find that the more realistic they are, the more I enjoy them. Car crashes, death scenes, rape scenes are always so overwrought, or boringly banal, they seem unreal. There are 2 movie scenes that have always seemed amazingly real to me in the sense they create a real emotion watching them. There have been many rape scenes in movies, some graphic, some less graphic, most poorly done. To me, the only rape scene that ever brings home the true horror that is rape, is the rape scene in Deliverance, which basically shows very little and is not graphic. It is simply so well done that it makes you feel its real. Deliverance, top me, is a disturbing movie, beginning to end.
The second is the death scene in the chariot race of Ben Hur where Masala (Stephen Boyd) gets dragged from the chariot under the horses and is trampled to death and left a sandy, bloody mess on the course. Sickly realistic and for a good reason: Its real. The stunt man, during the filming, was pulled from the chariot, under the horses and trampled to death....on film. His widow said: "leave it in, he'd have wanted it that way" and its one of the rare actual real moments in film, and the only one I know of where you actually see someone die.


A really believable scene to me was the first episode of Friday Night Lights (tv series). I had seen the movie and liked it so when the series came out wasn't going to miss it. The way they set up was so good and completely caught me by surprise -changing something up but actually making it more dramatic while still keeping the story alive.
I had missed some of the episodes when it originally was shown way back when and found the whole season DVD for 6 bucks. Went ahead and watched all the episodes. Enjoyed them all (especially the ones I had missed so many years ago), but that first episode was still the best one-in terms of how well done it was. And this was my feeling even though I knew what would happen in that first episode. Not the happiest episode (so not enjoyable because of what happened) but the most well done I thought.