Mainly it's actresses who are shown asleep. They look good with their eyes closed. Men look dumb or dead. A lingering death scene used to be common in movies. Now they are rare, but eating and screwing abound, and thousands of characters are quickly killed on screen.
Death is trivialized with much else that people care about.
There are dreadful movies made entirely of effects. The audience, highly stimulated, assumes it has had an experience. You'd have a more meaningful experience if you flung yourself down a flight of stairs. If actors wore masks, as in ancient drama, the audience couldn't fall in love with them, or worship them, and nobody would need or want to know about their private lives. My Concubine is partly about the tragedy that has befallen nations and persons upon the annihilation of our beautiful masks.