{"id":1488,"date":"2007-02-17T21:31:20","date_gmt":"2007-02-18T02:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/17\/truer-than-a-true-story\/"},"modified":"2007-02-17T21:50:16","modified_gmt":"2007-02-18T02:50:16","slug":"truer-than-a-true-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/17\/truer-than-a-true-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Truer than a true story"},"content":{"rendered":"

I saw The Life of Others<\/a>, the German movie which is nominated for an Oscar in the foreign language film<\/a> category. It’s a very good film<\/a>, especially when you consider that it’s a first feature for the writer\/director. You shouldn’t miss it.<\/p>\n

I was reading an interview with the filmmaker, Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck<\/a>, and found this passage about fact and fiction, a comment the director used through many interviews:<\/p>\n

The research was one big emotional and intellectual roller coaster ride. All of these stories somehow influenced my film. I spent almost too much time with the realities. But in the end, I had reached a point where I knew that I would be able to create a fictional story that was somehow truer than a true story. I do believe that fiction can actually be richer in content than fact. But perhaps that is a very German thought. The German word for fiction and poetry is « Dichtung », which actually means something like « Density ».<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fiction as density<\/a>. I like that idea very much, especially when you consider that, as is true with this movie and so many others, the range of reactions<\/a> it gets from critics is as fascinating as the movie itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I saw The Life of Others, the German movie which is nominated for an Oscar in the foreign language film category. It’s a very good film, especially when you consider that it’s a first feature for the writer\/director. You shouldn’t miss it. I was reading an interview with the filmmaker, Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck, and… Continue reading Truer than a true story<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}