We’ve seen standard marketing when it comes to films with
posters and banner ads, traditional marketing with trailers, viral marketing
with web videos… this one succeeds at being bizarre without necessarily being
obvious about it. This film is based on a true story (because of course it is)
but the marketing that we kept getting for it over here wasn’t of the usual
Oscar-ready trailer variety. Instead, it seemed to want to bring to attention
how much the story itself affected the people involved in the film… and in
turn, bringing forward more of the fiction than the reality than most of these
real-life drama films end up trying for. I mean, when pretty much every one of
these films is a slideshow to try and more closely connect the real events to
how the filmmakers depict them, this is a weird way of going about things,
especially when the “trailer” detailing all this was shown at a much higher
frequency. After the last couple instances concerning history on film, and how
expectations are still capable of playing into how a film is received, I’m
justifying this tangent of an introduction.