[BookZombie]

No not dumbing it down. Every culture have different ways to tell stories. Now in the typical Western way we have a beginning, a middle and an end and storylines usually follow this almost religiously. In the first part the setting is set up and the life of the characters before anything happens is shown, then there is a mid section where most things happens, and an end to finish it all off. In Japanese most storylines these three sections of a storyline is far less defined, making them hard to follow for audiences who expect a certain dynamic to how a story progresses.

Neither method of telling a story is dumber, they are just different. Japanese people who are not used to American movies have the same problem as Westerners have with theirs, it is just different cultures for how a story is told. Western stories is more told to fit into a self contained box, while Japanese stories is often more just a piece of something happening with no clear beginning or end.

Off course not all Japanese movies or American ones follow the typical layout of where they come from, but it is often the case, and it can be a bit off putting for someone to being told a story in a completely different format than they are used to.