Teri - been here before... it's not escaped our attention that imaginative art is not strongly uppermost in your priorities or appreciations...

For me, verisimilitude in cinema is not 100% essential at all times...

It's the movies after all - artistic expression can be far more important than mere exact facts...
It depends on so many factors, how much allowance is accepted for liberties with truth...

I take it film by film............

But for me there are important films purporting to be bio pics,
were I place more trust in the honest portrayal of a specific individuals life.
These are more likely to leave me feeling cheated, lied to, and manipulated...

It's not an exact science, with easy explanations...

Hollywood magic / trickery........?????

At the end of any film, my immediate impulse is to read about it's production and background history..
that's when critical analysis kicks in..
Some films demand more follow up than other...

Too many nights I've finished watching a movie by let's say 2:00 am,
and still been reading up on all aspects of it when the wife's alarm goes off for work...

Such movies, whether honest depictions, or a pack of fanciful lies, have worked effectively to stimulate my personal research on the subject..

Either way, that movie worked effectively to provoke interest and ideas....

Btw.. the Dunkirk documentary exonerating the RAF was very educational, but could have been far longer, or a series..
I wanted to know more.. That's how a good factual documentary works..

The movie which I hope to see as soon as the Blu-ray is cheap enough,
will be more about immersing one's self in the fearful emotions of the appalling terrifying situation, identifying with the plight of the human beings being blown to atoms, or drowned..
Trying to feel what my grandad would have endured fighting for escape...
Maybe even the vicarious adrenaline rush of bloody combat which my generation was thankfully spared...???
By all accounts, this movie is not a just a big dumb loud gung ho action movie, it has real respect for the individuals involved..

A sense of impressionistic reality, but not a reality documentary...