Why are bags always empty in films?

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Gina Lollobrigida beside a long row of suitcases and the boot of a Citroen DS 19
Gina Lollobrigida in 1955. But is there anything in those suitcase? Photograph: Charron/Getty Images Photograph: Charron/Getty Images

Given all the care that film-makers take to make things realistic, why do they never seem to put any weight in the bags and suitcases that actors carry?

John Benseman, Auckland, New Zealand

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