Fairy Tale: A True Story
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Features
• Closed-captioned
• Color
• Dolby
• NTSC
In Theaters : 24 October, 1997
Video Release : 06 October, 1998 |
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Fairy Tale: A True Story Customer Reviews
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Delusion and delight
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One of the negative reviews complained that the movie fails to reveal that the photographs were a hoax and suggests that it portrayed the fairies as real.
I never got that impression, but rather that their depiction was used as a cinematic device of seeing the world as the two young girls saw it.
For me, the real delight of the movie is the contrast between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini. Houdini, who exposed charlatans and spiritualists, recognized that the two young girls got swept up into a sensationalistic story over an innocent prank, while Doyle, grieving over the loss of his son in WWI, lost the objectivity of his rigorously logical alter ego, Sherlock Holmes.
It was the grief and suffering caused by a horrible war that sparked the hysteria over the photographs, with people reaching out for something pure, innocent and beautiful. Houdini, as well as the filmmakers, recognized that, and artfully refrained from bulldozing over innocence with the sharp edges of fact.
One of the daughters of the late conductor Bruno Walter, said in an interview that their father never allowed them backstage at an opera until they were grown. He explained later that he didn't want to destroy the magic for them.
Houdini would have understood. |
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