I hear what you mean, and the answer is no of course. It’s fun to try, and that’s all. We think we can, but there are a million cultural assumptions that you’d miss. Just watch all the Jane Austin films or westerns over the decades and you can see how directors from the 70s, 90s and 2010s insert their own blind biases. Can you even imagine thinking like someone from across the globe in the modern era? Probably not. You can’t even think like someone from the other side of your own town.

But there’s a lot to learn from trying