Thirteen years ago Roger Ebert made an argument for making things up—one I’ve wrestled with ever since.
But who is the “we” doing the asking?
Given that standard, “JFK” is a masterpiece.
In 2011, after writing out careful instructions for his brain to be harvested and studied, Duerson committed suicide by shooting himself in the heart. His instructions were carried out and pathologists found his brain was riddled with CTE.
“People go to movies not to digest information and data but to have an emotional experience,” Concussion’s director, Peter Landesman, told the Times. “The movie is emotionally and spiritually accurate all the way through.”
This seems to be the problem a movie faces when it sacrifices the facts to emotional truths. If you’re not in the mood to buy into those truths, you sit there amazed and distracted by lies.
