Obvious things about a creative work you realize after the millionth time (OPEN SPOILERS POSSIBLE)

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A question about A Hard Day's Night

I watched this the other night on TV, and something occurred to me for the first time: both John Lennon’s and Paul McCartney’s mothers are referred to in passing as if they were both still living, but as we know (I didn’t at the time I first watched the movie) they both had died, fairly recently (within the past ten years or so) and quite traumatically for both Lennon and McCartney. who were both close to their mothers. So why do you suppose they went along with the script as the rather insensi…