The first - person account of grappling with terminal illness proves to be startlingly fertile ground for cinema when juxtaposed with the other strand of the film, an impressionistic
fictionalisation of everyday events like meetings with doctors and friends in which Lili Taylor plays the protagonist.
Director Joe Wright has defended the sequence as «
a fictionalisation of an emotional truth», but many people detest the moment and its historical inaccuracies.
Not exact matches
Two major goals
of the film seem to be to faithfully document a crucial moment in history through entertaining
fictionalisation and to use Lincoln's involvement as a way
of shining some light on the type
of person he was.
The extent
of the
fictionalisation in a factual drama can vary.