It is an intimate portrait of the director as he reflects on his life and career and blends documentary
with fictional elements.
The film — which was inspired by real events but necessarily
features fictional elements — focuses on the events aboard the United 93 flight, one of the hijacked planes on that horrific morning.
While based on true events, 5 Days of War contains
blatant fictional elements which stick out like a sore thumb, including Hollywood - style split - second timing and other contrived scenarios that damage the film's integrity.
That the filmmakers chose to keep things as grounded as they do is something that should be commended, as it's undeniably easier to build a similar story in an alternate world with 100
percent fictional elements.
Mixing actual events
with fictional elements and characters (Tolson and Farmer are based on real people), the movie manages to be engaging and thought provoking, even if it is sometimes predictable.
The Barnes brothers and Snider have a great understanding of how to break the «fourth wall» creating an extra layer of authenticity in it's doc - elements or empathize the comedy in it's
fictional elements.
The movie keeps mixing real - life events / people with
fictional elements — but not in that good E.L. Doctorow way:
The film remarkably melds documentary and
fictional elements — the cowboy is portrayed by Brady Jandreau, who in real life suffered the same injuries.
[To Jolie] In a way like your film too, revealing a culture and an environment that has a pretty heightened degree of authenticity, meaning the documentary but at the same time, there are composite characters and there are
fictional elements.
«Eddie the Eagle» will be a huge hit in Britain, but the lack of information on Eddie Edwards in the States could provide American audiences with quite a compelling suspense story, despite
the fictional elements to the movie.
Working carefully researched events and other historical figures together with richly nuanced creative details and
fictional elements, Leveen weaves a wonderfully engaging tapestry that honors her subject and treats difficult material with sensitivity and honesty.
Of course, there were lots of superhero comics with science -
fictional elements (as well as elements of mystery, romance, etc.).
I was most fascinated by the challenge of visualizing magic,
a fictional element that frequently appears as an important gameplay component in Final Fantasy games.
By filtering museological categories through visual art the artists combine credible and
fictional elements, playing with our response to archetypal images of knowledge and research.
Focusing the viewer's attention on natural, artificial and
fictional elements, leading beyond their real and perceived confines, into uncharted territory.
Ji combines Chinese symbolism, personal research, and
fictional elements to portray his chosen narratives in both satirical and sympathetic ways.
He works in both documentary and performative modes, often blending autobiography with
fictional elements to create a persona that is at once genuine and carefully orchestrated.
Her films interweave documentary and
fictional elements to explore people's psychological relationship to their jobs and their working architectural environments.
Physical Fiction presents works in which corporeal and
fictional elements are combined.
She often appropriates raw documentary materials and blends these with
fictional elements.
Through a non-linear narrative tour that includes sensory and
fictional elements to immerse the audience in a psychogeographical exploration, the artist will explore fetishism and the concept of shadows and impurities through the preservation of the space.