Such double-layered narrative of films based on real stories is investigated from a semiotic perspective in this article.
The denoted world of these films highlights the meaning through meta-interpretation, calling attention to the real life on its basic level. Those films have a dimension on the meta-level, in which events-the basis of the meta-narrative-are interpreted and turned into stories. The most remarkable characteristic of real-story-based films is that they form a world of denotation, which at once constructs stories and presents facts, depicting the events while interpreting their meanings at the same time. Films based on real stories have received considerable scholarly attention, which engages a wide variety of inquiries including the question of non-fictionality and fictionality and the boundary between feature films and news. Reconstructing real events in film is almost as old as filmmaking itself.
