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FAIRY TALE: A TRUE STORY is like TITANIC: A TRUE STORY

posted 17 years ago by Smile_U_SOB
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the pictures are true and the girls and what they did is true and the people and situations about the pictures is true but the fairies flying around dodging cigarettes and swimming with mermaid fins and the ghost of a kid scaring away a sneaky reporter who broke into the house... this is all true?

um, i dont think so!!!!

come on, folks, calling this a true story is very, very wrong.

it's like calling TITANIC a true story since the ship and the disaster was true.

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[–] leforcat 17 years ago

I think you simply haven't grasped even the slightest crunch of what the film is all about. You're beyond explanation. You may start, though, by asking yourself what The Truth is in general, and in particular how can any film whatsoever be true.

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[–] kalle_ankare 16 years ago

To anyone with an IQ over 3, people living outside of the U.S.A that is, it is obvious that the filmmakers aren't trying to have you believe that there where fairies present for real, nor that the pictures are real. To suggest such a thing is even more ludacris than suggesting that fairies actually exist. If you don't get that, maybe you're so stupid it's probably best you keep off the internet alltogether. I've seen a lot of stupid *beep* posted on the net but this just takes the cake.

[–] simplyshiny 16 years ago

how do you know? were you alive watching the road and the brook where this all supposedly took place? I personally dont think that believing in fairies is ludicrous, believe what you want, the innocence of believing in fairies is a beautiful thing, just like the innocence of this movie is beautiful as for your titanic analogy...um what?

[–] satterwh 16 years ago

Without any judgment on either side...

I remember once talking to my nephew about leprechauns. At one point, I asked him if he thought it was strange that there were quite a few people in Ireland who took them very seriously, His reply: "Of course, as I've never been there to investigate it, there's always the possibility that they're real."

Logically, it is not possible to prove a negative.

[–] ricky_says_hi 9 years ago

Well the film's original title was One Golden Afternoon, so I assume the studio wanted to slap the 'A True Story' label onto it to try and get more people to see the film

In a way the film doesn't contradict history too much (aside from the ages of the girls and compressing the events, as well as having Houdini visit them). If you look closely, the actual fairies don't resemble the ones in the photos (one of the arguments against them being real back then was that the 'fairies' had fashionable hairstyles, which Elsie had copied from a magazine) and the reporter does find cut-outs in Joseph's room. Also we never physically see the girls taking any photos

The film kind of seems to go down the route that the real Frances said the photos were fake, not the fairies. Either the real Frances wanted to keep lying to preserve some people's beliefs, or she did believe she had seen fairies in her garden.

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