Looking back on the 20^th anniversary of Michael Winterbottom’s unconventionally honest Factory biopic.

“Music biopics are often uncomplicated affairs.  Perhaps due to the trade-off required in order to secure the rights to an artist’s back catalogue, a great many function like brand extensions rather than dramatically engaging examinations of the people behind the music.  Lip-service may be paid to their ‘flaws’, but the narrative will ultimately bend over backwards to create a redemption arc because of the music they created.  More than the results being antithetical to convincing drama, they’re often just plain boring.  Mythmaking in a manner that sands off a subject’s specific aura to make them more like everyone else who’s been the subject of one of these.  A Notorious B.I.G. biopic and a Tupac Shakur biopic should not be functionally interchangeable from one another, and yet…”

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Callie Petch is caught between two lives.