Blog 5 Post

I believe that in non-fiction, the most important thing to not forget, is to keep the big main concepts and add a few minor things. For example, in movies about war, such as Valkyrie, the director keeps the big concepts. He does not change the fact that Hitler was the leader and Jews were the target. A few change ups isn't a big deal, because everyone really knows what happened, people go mostly for the entertainment standpoint of the movie. With that being said, I don't think it would be right to change the whole story line and in a way, change the way history is seen. I believe that the way Hollywood makes movies dramatized, could potentially give wrong information about the actual event, which could end up misleading a couple.

I believe we do need lines in between fiction and non-fiction, without those lines, how would one know the difference between true events and others that were simply made up? Without the line, I believe that waters could be contaminated with false information and bias from all the different opinions. When 9/11 happened, there were many conspiracy theories and false information, made up by ordinary people. If someone were to make a book on how the government was in on 9/11 and they planned it and there was no fact or fiction border, no one would know what to believe. Non- Fiction and Fiction are a very important label in the world, and keep the facts but can make history a lot more interesting with a few tweaked parts, calling it fiction.