The impact of the movie lingers on longer than I expected. There’s something about a movie based on a true story that doesn’t let you to think of it as just a movie. When a movie starts out by putting brakes on the notion that movies are fiction, we grow nervous. This happens because there’s a subtle but great gap between things that can happen and things that can’t, and things that did happen and things that didn’t. But at times, fiction becomes reality, and reality fiction. And at times, you just can’t bring yourself to believe something that took place in real life—something you experienced
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