The short of it is, not adequately at all.

Cinema, if we’re talking about Hollywood which I’m going to assume we are, is very good at one thing, and one thing only. That is, it’s good at fuck off big explosions, mostly uninteresting characters and not one moment of banality.

To expand on these things, the problem with modern cinema is that there’s too much going on. Life is mundane. You get up, have a shower, have a shit, etc. Then you take an hour to get to work, sitting about on public transport, in traffic jams. Stare at a screen for eight hours, sit in traffic for another hour. Go home, eat, watch tv, masturbate, go to sleep. Repeat ad infinitum. Except for a few exceptions, cinema just doesn’t show these things, and for good reason, banality isn’t entertaining. The problem then, is that someone who’s take on the world came from cinema is that they’d expect something to always be happening. They’d expect constant drama, they’d expect crazy things to happen all the damned time, but the world doesn’t work like that.

Another problem would be that people would just simply be ill equipped to understand each other. Characters in cinema tend towards the two dimensional, often being flat and uninteresting, with miraculous mind reading abilities that let them understand each other perfectly. This is in quite an extreme contrast to the reality of the world, where people tend towards the complicated, and people don’t have the cognitive genius to read the minds and interpret exactly what others mean.

There are other issues, namely characterisation that stems from geography. Americans would, of course, be the heroic geniuses, Europeans their bitches (essentially), Muslims and Arabs terrorists, Russians commies, etc.

It’s not a world I’d like to live in.