Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by joe2cooled (A) on January 21, 2003 at 21:54:27

In Reply to: not picking on you in particular, but ... posted by TA on January 17, 2003 at 18:39:02:

I am not shocked that the movie distorted reality a bit, but I look at a movie differently when I know it is a real story. By the way I am so uninformed that I didn't even know that it is according to a real story, I only found out at the end and that made me believe (stupid me) that it is very close to what has actually happened.
Of course I understand that some things get changed, but when it is pretty much everything then I find it very disappointing. Part of watching a movie is also getting some insight into human history (for some movies only of course) and if the history is completely false then I find that very disturbing because you get a completely wrong idea about the human history.
For example the movie "hurricane" I found very interesting because I did not know about that case and now I do (assuming it is relatively close to the facts... I am sooo naiv).You also distroyed my liking of the movie "fargo", I actually did not know it was fake. When I started watching it I thought it is a made up story and I said to my friend after an hour "how unrealistic", he then replied "but this is based on a real story) and I watched it with other eyes and found it bizzare! That is how such an information can change ones perception.

So what was actually true with Abignale?? I would really like to know that now!