I'm watching tv and it's always hilarious to me how someone will get stabbed and die instantly in media, like no, there's lots of screaming and thrashing, even lethal stabs very rarely result in instant death. It's ugly stuff. Twisting, writhing, panic, it's pathetic looking. Not clean at all like how stories make it seem. But they can't have that, can't have peoples stories being ruined by the truth, because that's what fiction is, an escape from the truth.
But fiction can also be an examination of the truth, art imitating life. But what about when real spontaneity action is caught on film and then turned into a fiction, what if it is used to tell a story that never was, overtly, with narrative that never was, superimposed over the images, via sound or subtitles, or perhaps even through more images, invented images. What is this? Is it fiction, or is it fact? Is it both? Impossible. It can't be both. It can have both within it, but it can't be both. And so if it has both, is it not a fiction still, for any fiction with a fact within it is still a fiction. Just as any clock which is only right twice a day is still broken, or any liar who tells the truth once by happenstance is not made into a trustworthy person.
