The Reality of The Brothers Grimm

 Movies are an outlet for creation, often used to create a pretty picture. "The Brothers Grimm", is a perfect example of directors creating a pretty picture for their audience when one looks at the film it's easy to tell that everything within the film is fictional. Including the background, tales told about the brothers as well as their fairy-tales. Watching fairy-tales as a child you can't help but want your life to be similar to any fairy-tale because you knew at the end you'd always have a happy ending. Within the novel about the Grimm brothers titled, "The Brothers Grimm: From Enchanted Forests To The Modern World", we learn a lot about the brothers revolving around their background and lives.

In the film, we get a basic understanding that the brothers were extremely poor and they grew up in poverty and throughout their experiences in poverty they learned how to scam and scheme others out of their money. We also learn that they travel from town to town collecting tales and "fighting off the supernatural". The things that I've listed above would all be considered fiction seeing as the supernatural doesn't exist as well as the fact that within the novel the brothers were poor but they weren't extremely poor to the point that they sold cattle to scourge up enough money to take care of their ill sister. They were actually very wealthy seeing as their father was a well-respected lawyer and their mother was the daughter of a city councilman.

Fact. The definition of this word would be something that is known and can be proven to be true, whereas fiction is something that can not be proven and it is seen as more of a fantasy or theory than anything. There are many fictional statements and theories within the movie nut there are a few they can be accounted for as true. The fact that the Frech occupied Germany, as well as the fact that they recorded any tale they came across all, would be considered a fact. The fictional points within the film would be the fact that Angelica wasn't apart of either of their lives and her step-father didn't manipulate or control any aspects of their lives.