Should we put an end to biopics?

According to philosopher Michel Guerrin, the biopic works because “the public also wants intimacy, they want to enter the bedroom of 'exceptional people'. They want to see what even the paparazzi cannot see. capture. So it doesn't matter if the story takes liberties with the truth.” Between memorial vector and irruption into the intimate, between realism and fiction, what does the biopic really show? How does the biopic manage to combine narrative and aesthetics? Does the renewal of biopics, which show more and more contemporary characters, or even still living ones, reflect a change in public expectations?

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