Purists may feel that fiction dissipates the quest of real human understanding, that film is too crude to tell a complex and detailed history, or that filmmakers always serve drama over truth.
Purister føler måske at fiktion formøbler en søgen efter virkelig, menneskelig forståelse, at film er for primitive til at fortælle en kompleks og detaljeret historie, eller at filmskabere altid serverer drama frem for sandhed.