The fourth wall is the imaginary "wall" at the front of the stage in a traditional three-walled box set in a proscenium theatre, through which the audience sees the action in the world of the play. (Wikipedia definition)
"Fourth wall" is part of the suspension of disbelief between a fictional work and an audience. The audience will usually passively accept the presence of the fourth wall without giving it any direct thought, allowing them to enjoy the fiction as if they were observing real events. It is the invisible barrier between realities. The presence of a fourth wall is one of the best established conventions of a fiction and as such has led some artists to draw direct attention to it for dramatic effect. This is known as breaking the fourth wall.Although breaking of the fourth wall is usually deliberate, the technical constraints of filmmaking, or the impracticality of refilming a complicated scene, can sometimes inadvertently break the wall by "reminding" the audience that they are watching a film: for example something splashing on the lens, such as water or mud or blood, such as the effects used in Saving Private Ryan, and more recently, Tim Burton's adaptation of Sweeney Todd.
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