“May December,” nominated for an Oscar, is a terrifying true story turned into a movie. It does not clarify where the imagination begins and where the reality ends in its story, which is drawn from a famous real incident that was circulated in the yellow newspapers for months after it happened.
The name of the film represented a mystery that the director needed to explain, and then critics and viewers were confused as to whether it was a comedy or a drama, until Netflix presented it to compete at the Golden Globes.