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Why Do Movies Show Anaphylaxis Wrong?

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 I was watching Glass Onion and I was surprised at the ending.  I can NEVER figure out murder mysteries and am always wrong about "who done it" In fact, the movie was so fast paced that I missed a lot of things. So I decided to put on the closed captioning so I could watch it again.  I saw the scene where a character dies of anaphylaxis (oh.....is that what killed him?) But then I thought, wait a minute! You can't die that fast from an allergen! In the movie, Big Burly Guy says he "doesn't do pineapple". (I missed that the first time.) At the end of the movie, when the detective was doing a recap of what happened, he talked about how Big Burly Guy died. That the Slimy Guy had put pineapple juice into Big Burly Guy's drink It showed a clip of Big Burly Guy grabbing his throat, staggering for about 10 seconds, and then collapsing and dying Hold the phone!  Why can't movies show anaphylaxis or asthma attacks correctly? Ugh!  Death doesn't happen ins