20 surreal Movies that are based on real-life stories

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The Elephant Man (1980) | Image Source: Prime Video ( Columbia–EMI–Warner Distributors ) — The Elephant Man (1980) | Image Source: Prime Video (Columbia–EMI–Warner Distributors )

4) Love and Mercy (2014)

Love And Mercy (2014) | Image Source: Prime Video (Lionsgate Roadside Attractions)

This is the biographical story of Brian Wilson, co-founder of the Beach Boys. The film zeroes in on two of Brian Wilson's most pivotal dramatic moments in his life: his creativity in the 1960s by overcoming an auditory hallucination and the later years of the 1980s under the dubious treatments of his therapist, Dr. Eugene Landy. He accomplishes this by jumping back and forth between the man he now is, fighting for freedom and recovery, and the man he once was, a creative experimentalist—and all in between. Through surreal images of his inward journeys, the film captures Wilson as he struggles through turmoil, filling the screen with his power of resilience and healing through love and music.

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