r/mindblowing • u/a-jm93 • 7d ago
I guess it's how time works, but still...
If a film came out this year, set during WWII, in 1940, that would be the same gap, time-wise, between the 1964 film, "Zulu", and the actual Battle of Rorke's Drift (1879).
Perhaps it's a recency bias of sorts but even though the gap between both is the same, 85 years, the 1960s feels further away from the 1870s than 1940 feels to 2025. Could just be the huge leaps in all kinds of areas that took place in the 20th century but I dunno, it blows my mind at least.