Miscellaneous Movie Musings the Sequel

[Alex]

Unless it is an area I know reasonably well independently I just treat biographical and historical films as completely fictional.

If it requires a patina of reality to be entertaining then, frankly, it fails as a movie in my opinion.

To an extent this is even true of documentaries. I assume that there is not intentional distortion but unless I'm familiar with things I assume that the filmmaker could be so unintentionally distorting things as to be a useful document, but it can still be an entertaining film.