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You could argue that the very premise of this trope exists because [[Viewers are Morons]]. It's generally taken for granted that [[Kayfabe|just about everyone over the age of six realizes that fictional media is not real]], and that any attempt to replicate an actual event within a fictionalized framework - no matter how painstaking the effort - is inevitably going to fall short. But in a heavily suburbanized era where so many people in post-industrialized countries are sheltered from so much of reality, it's probably inevitable that they'll think of docudramas as being as real as it can get.

 

 

Compare [[Very Loosely Based on a True Story]]. Contrast [[Roman à Clef]].

 

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