This article is about movies skimping out on the communication skills of their characters as a narrative device-- it's a lot like the fact that many pre-cellphone movies would have been over in 60 seconds if only the characters had a cellphone. We live in a world with cellphones now, so they're usually expected in movies. We still don't live in a world where people know how to communicate.
Movie logic-- or more generally "narrative bias"-- taints people's thinking in ways far beyond failures to communicate. I've encountered a lot of people who fall for scams or believe conspiracy theories for reasons that ultimately amount to "if life were a story, this is what would happen".