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Aesthetic philosophers generally reject claims that suspension of disbelief accurately characterizes the relationship between people and " fictions.

" Kendall Walton notes that, if viewers were to truly suspend disbelief at a horror movie and accept its images as true, they would have a true-to-life set of reactions.

For instance, audience members would cry out, " Look behind you!

" to an endangered on-screen character or call the police when they witnessed an on-screen murder.