"Inspired by a true story."
"It's not a docudrama. But this event happened, and that is what the whole movie is centered upon," Mr. Marshall says. He adds that the words "inspired by" are used because "it's important to know that this could happen. It validated the hook of the movie."
In the Wall Street Journal, John Lippman considers the trend of movies based or inspired on a true story (or real dog). While Lippman doesn't actually demonstrate that there are more "reality-based" (truthy?) films in theaters tonight than there were twenty years ago, it's fair to say that memoir, reality television and based-on-a-true-story have a cultural privilege right now over fiction and invention.
Why? Since this has been sitting in the draft pile for a while, I'll leave it as a question and come back to it in a later post, if it continues to nag me. I suspect that our tolerance for lies is at one with the denigration of imaginative capacity, of the truth in fiction. Now, evidence!
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