Also, in real life, people don't line up nice and cleanly so the camera can see every blow in a fight, there is no slo-mo, and people often don't react immediately to injury unless it disables their brain. If you stab someone once and they don't immediately drop, or back off and give a monologue, like you're conditioned by fiction to believe will happen, then the rational part of your brain peaces out and you wail on the thing that should not be until it stops being and sanity can regain a foothold.
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