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Introducing my alien culture to human culture through cinema has been an interesting and rewarding experience.  One of the more amusing aspects of this is when they question how real the events they see on screen are.

Everyone understood relatively quickly that the movies themselves were not strict documents of reality. However, there was some debate as to whether these movies were reenacting real events or not.  This took some explaining.

Certainly, some movies are based on real events, so it was more difficult than one would think to reassure them this was not always true.  We are from an alien world where behavior and sometimes physics work quite differently, so there can be no immediate assumption as to what is possible here.  Also, the concept of fictional tales and mythology is a very difficult concept to us.  It may seem elementary to humans, but the differences in reality of “Lawrence of Arabia” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” are not immediately apparent.

Indeed, if movies are to be believed, humanity has encountered aliens from other worlds countless times.  I am still not convinced these events are entirely fictional.