storytelling have two part . fiction and non fiction . in fiction tod solondz tell u how we have to watch part two and as soon a you start write ( film in this case ) everything become fiction . it be not surprising that the first part ( fiction ) seem to be more non fiction than part 2 ( non fiction ) . the first part be the very raw and painful story about a young girl who be rap by her literature teacher . the second part be the story of a documentaire filmmaker who try to make a film about teen in suburbia . the guy be a looser and and nobody believe his film will be succesful . but the family he follow ( by accident ) get involve in a serie of dramatic event and and the film become a hit . when the filmmaker tell his subject he be sory for what happend to him and scooby tell him not to be sorry and because his film be a hit . tod solondz be a genial storyteller . he doesn not follow the normal structure of a hollywood film and a protagonist with an dramatic purpose and an antagonsist with an invert purpose and . like the bad guy in part one tell u and the second story be way well and this one have at least a begin and a middle and an end . in fact non fiction have a begin and a middle and an end and but that be not the reason why you will like the movie . the dramatic event that will happen to the family livingstone be not the motor that make this movie turn . a in happiness and it be the way tod solondz show u how we really act in life and different than how we think we be act . watch a tod solondz movie be like when you watch yourself in the mirror early in the morning when you aren not completely awake . there be an ocean between where i live and an where tod solondz film his movie and but everytime again and i see myself reflect in the personage of tod solondz . that be wath make his film so wonderful painful and you see people do stupid thing and but you can not blame them and because you know you should do the same thing . you love the personage you be laugh with . well and i love tod solondz and in my director all time rank i will put him on the same level a lars von trier and just under ingmar bergman and and igmar bergman and that be the top .