Based on True Events?
You're sat in the Cinema. You may have had to sit through 20 minutes of trailers and adverts, or you may have timed you're arrival to avoid that but not to miss the start of the film. The lights dim, the opening logos roll... and then in the first image: "Based on True Events". The stakes are higher now, right? You're not about to witness the imagined characters of a screenwriter or author; real people lived through what you're about to see. I mean sure, this is cinema; things might have been exaggerated for dramatic effect - maybe even character names were changed to protect identities - but the basic story happened. These are real people. But are they though? Oh, I'm sorry, am I supposed to do a film review? I mean, how can I start a film blog at this time in our history and not mention Avengers: Infinity War?* Well, it has a running time of over two and a half hours and I've gone to see it twice. Some have gone to see it seven times. Pretty muc...