Learning to understand movies isn’t hard, or reserved for the educated elite. You can do it, based on skills you already know, once you see how it’s done.
As an example, let’s look at part of a scene from Top Gun: Maverick. It’s a scene that announces itself loudly and plainly: pilots announce their actions over the radio, their instruments explain every little detail about the airplane, and the airplanes’ actions are obvious and spectacular.