"shockingly stupid"?
It's a movie. Called poetic license. It's not a documentary or a news-story.
The artist(s) [writer, director, etc] take certain liberties to tell their story.
In these kinds of stories one isn't supposed to be looking at how it should be but, rather, does the story, regardless the liberties taken in its telling, grab your attention? & is it told in a manner that you (a) care about at least 1 character enough that you want to whittle away at least 1.5 hours of your precious time on this beautiful blue-green planet to (b) sit through the whole telling and (c) just maybe you'll be intrigued enough afterwards to conjure up some question (sometimes any kind of question, no matter how inane, maybe) so you can go to a forum and (d) ask others who did the same as you and want to discuss it with you.
Otherwise, most of us would be sitting around with the storyboard, the screenplay & continuity boards doing reality-checks & believability-analyses.
If that were the case what kind of fun would it be watching a movie such as "The King of Hearts", where the inmates, in the beginning, not only run the asylum but have unadulterated run of the village - until the townsfolk come back. Then the asylumites, by their own volition, walk back through the asylum gates. After all, who in their unright mind wants to be around right-minded (aka, "normal") folk?
Believable? Who knows? Who cares? Terrific flick!
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