eiga wa genjitsu to chigaimasu.

topic particle

Breakdown of eiga wa genjitsu to chigaimasu.

• と: companion particle
• 映えい画が: movie
• 違ちがう: to differ

Questions & Answers about eiga wa genjitsu to chigaimasu.

What does は do in 映画 は 現実 と 違います?

は marks 映画 as the topic of the sentence.

So the sentence is talking about movies, and then saying something about them:

• 映画は... = As for movies... / Movies...

A very literal breakdown is:

• 映画 = movie / movies
• は = topic marker
• 現実と = with reality / compared with reality
• 違います = differ / are different

So the whole sentence is basically:

• As for movies, they are different from reality.

Why is there a と after 現実?

Here, と marks the thing that something is being compared with.

With 違う / 違います, A は B と 違う means:

• A is different from B

So in this sentence:

• 映画は現実と違います
• Movies are different from reality

You can think of this と as meaning something like from / compared with, even though its core meaning is often and / with in other contexts.

What exactly does 違います mean here?