People Gazing At Each Other in Movies

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Have you ever noticed that characters give each other long looks in movies, often without saying anything?

Sometimes I understand why, but often, I don't. It seems like the looks are supposed to mean something, but I don't know what they mean.

Do people do this in real life?

And movie characters who go into the bathroom and splash water on their faces (not washing their face, just splashing one or two handfuls of water) like they need help waking up, do people do that in real life?

no idea about the gazing but, yeah, splashes of cold water do help to snap one awake. works for me at least.

I understand what the gaze means if it is straight forward and unambiguous but I think movies will also often use that device to make you wonder what the motivation or underlying meaning might be. They might even want to trick you a bit and lead you to interpret it in one way and then surprise you later with a completely different meaning. So, gazes are not all for the same purpose and are more to let you know that something is going on that the story teller is not telling you and to make you think of the possibilities.

Water in the face wakes you up. Also characters in movies might do that after witnessing something stupefying (a horrible crime, a ufo landing in your backyard, or the the 900 foot tall cyborg Transformer creature flipping over the city bus right in front of you) to snap out of the state of near shock.

About gazing at each other. I do not recall ever being puzzled as to why two characters on the silver screen were gazing at other. So I guess that I always "get it" when I see it.

Do you mean like when two members of the opposite sex gaze at each other longingly?

Two folks shooting a glance at each other from across is usually meaningful, but that's not "gazing" at each other.