Movies does not reflect how the movie-makers understand the world.
When movies show computers searching for fingerprints by displaying a series of fingerprints in rapid succession on-screen, it is not because the movie-makers actually thinks that databases works like that. It is because it is an effective way of telling that piece of story.
Movies reflect how the movie-makers believe that a story can be told most effectively. And they have quite a lot of experience in this field.
Dramatic storytelling requires that the protagonist has a motivation to reach a goal. "For the fun of it" is not a dramatically effective motivation, since it does not drive the story towards a climax where the goal is reached - or lost forever.
When movies show computers searching for fingerprints by displaying a series of fingerprints in rapid succession on-screen, it is not because the movie-makers actually thinks that databases works like that. It is because it is an effective way of telling that piece of story.
Movies reflect how the movie-makers believe that a story can be told most effectively. And they have quite a lot of experience in this field.
Dramatic storytelling requires that the protagonist has a motivation to reach a goal. "For the fun of it" is not a dramatically effective motivation, since it does not drive the story towards a climax where the goal is reached - or lost forever.