I agree with Jarvie’s thesis that the average film goer is willing to suspend our disbelief. However, only to a certain extent. If one is told going into a film that it is “based on true events,” or for that matter even a historical film, the extent of a film goer’s suspension is diminished. Even though the actual events that happened are almost the minority of the content of the film. Anything that can have happened or with the potential of happening sucks the viewer in more so than a film whose universe is so far from the viewers own. The film Upside Down, in which two planets are nearly touching, and each has its own gravity is so far from our own current universe that even tying in a love story making it a caviar to the masses still made
