Ok. So its something im sorta frustrated with in movie and film plots. Its where the characters seem to intentionally not tell other characters things for apparently no reason. So its like a fair amount of the plot would not exist if the characters would just mention relevant things. This is usually in fantasy types like in particular I am seeing it with the magicians and school spirits. I mean maybe behavior like this is common outside my experience but its weird to me.
its always been pretty common, but its more frustrating today because communication is so easy to achieve. trivial even. we all are more or less able to communicate with almost anyone else at almost any time. theres simply no excuse anymore.
theres also just shitty writing. the ‘im going to keep this a secret so theres a plot’ trope. the recent series Evil did a great job of portraying a close team of ‘professionals’ who constantly fail to tell each other important bits of information the entire series. its beyond frustrating.