What: In the twisty documentary Stories We Tell, filmmaker/writer/actress Sarah Polley traces the threads of a particular knot in her family's history. Several of the people involved also happen to be actors and/or writers, and some of them had already mentally claimed this particular story for themselves. Tension ensues.
What could have been a kind of icky family exploitation is instead a thoughtful meditation on how we choose to narrate ourselves --- and who gets the right to tell someone else's story.
Representative quote: "When you're in the middle of a story, it isn't a story at all but rather a confusion, a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass and splintered wood ... It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all, when you're telling it to yourself or someone else."
How to get it: Currently available to stream on Netflix and Amazon Prime.
Connections to previous Wreckage: Sarah Polley had a key role in the third season of Slings and Arrows (Rec. #287). Her dad, though, was in almost every single episode of the series. It's true. He's that one guy. You'll see.
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