Movies that are most closest and similar to real life, but NOT based on a true story
There are a bajillion, but maybe you are looking for a specific genre that nails it on the head.
As someone mentioned, there are thousands of social drama films that could’ve easily happened. The success of that type of film is selling a “day in the life” plot.
Someone else mentioned Office Space. That film is a satire, but it condenses and delivers refined representations of the banality of cubicle life that we all can easily relate to. The characters truly seem to be facsimiles of people we’ve known in our working lives.
Someone else mentioned Michael Clayton. It’s an excellent thriller with flawed characters with believable motives that yes, it could be real. And maybe something like that has happened?
What genre will help us answer your question?
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
- Civil War
- The Ides of March
- Michael Clayton
- A Most Wanted Man
Don’t Look Up
Idiocracy. We’re basically dumping brawndo on the plants as we speak…
Idiocracy is an entertaining comedy, but it isn’t realistic in the slightest.
Idiocracy uses a eugenicist premise (and the problem with that premise is a whole can of worms unto itself) to set up a world where everyone is an idiot, no exceptions. But they’re well-meaning idiots, and they have enough sense to be able to defer to the one and only smart guy in the room who ultimately saves the day.
The real world is suffering not because the people in power are stupid, but because the people in power are selfish and evil, and because they are smart enough to manipulate people who are dumber than them. There’s only one exception here, but the one guy who is a true idiot is a puppet being controlled by smart evil people.
The Room
Yeah, it really does match the incoherent conversations and relationships that a lot of people have in a way that most scripted movies don’t.
It doesn’t make for a good movie, but when I did watch it the characters reminded me of people I knew.
Office Space. Although, it is a little too real sometimes.
Fargo is not a true story, though some of it was inspired by true events (wood chipper)
I got called to Minnesota to serve two years as an LDS missionary back in 2000. I absolutely loved the place. But my first day was I was stationed in Brainerd MN, and my apartment was on the edge of a frozen lake. I took a picture of it, and colored in the old brick BBQ to look like a wood chipper with feet sticking out of the top, and a large red stain across the ice, and sent it to my sister. That picture sat in her cubicle for years after that. I can’t think of that scene without thinking of it.
That’s amazing
Probably would have to be the movie Rubber.
Marriage Story is one to check out if that’s what you are looking for.
Any social drama? These movies are boring as fuck and resemble the shit you can hear about the neighbors. Quite realistic.
