"This is a true story of friendship that works deeper than blood." These words are opened by Barry Levinson's "sleeping", the 1996 legal crime drama, which revolves around minor delinquents that end sentences for more than nine months. As expected from the film's initial lines, the story revolves around four friends growing in a rough neighborhood that oversee two moral opposing figures - Parish priest father Bobby (Robert de Niro) and the local gangster King Benny (Vittorio Gasman). While children often make minor mistakes for King Benny from time to time, an unfortunate accident in the summer of 1967 completely changes the trajectory of their lives.

After stealing a wheelchair with a warm dog, children play around with her, and accidentally descends into a set of stairs and destroys the man. The four children are convicted of serving a time at a minor detention center, where they are subjected to unimaginable horrors, including repeated examples of sexual abuse and torture by the sadistic Guard (Kevin Bacon). Fast forward to the near future, two of the children (now all grown) shoot at the "insincere guards" guard, while the other two use their legitimate positions as a journalist and assistant to help their friends overcome the law. Only when you think this is a direct story of justified revenge, "Sleepers" introduces the topics of complex morality and ransom, which define the lives of thousands affected by similar social circumstances in America.

The story of Lorenzo (Asoneyson Patrick), Michael (Brad Pitt), Johnon (Ron Eldard) and Tommy (Billy Crudis) in "Sleepers" are based on the eponymous book on Non-Fixed Lorenzo Carkaterra in which these events are detailed in the real life. However, Carcatel's claim that he is among the boys who have experienced these frightening events has been disputed since the publication of the book, throwing dubious light on the truth of memoirs. This asks the question: are Carcaterra's "sleepers" really a true story? Here's what we know.

Any memoirs or personal account that is even a little autobiographical inherently raises questions about authenticity. For beginners, our memory of memories is never perfectly aligned with objective truth (since some experiences are colored with subjective interpretation), and it is natural to want to paint ourselves as a little different from how we really perceive (Levinson himself did four Deep Personal Films Collective Called Like His Movies in Baltimore). But even when we neglect these aspects, "sleep" becomes controversial, as real -life institutions, which were allegedly involved in the events that took place, strongly disputed the Carcatel account.

First is the Holy Heart of Jesus Church and the school on the west side of Manhattan. This is the Carcaterra institution and his friends reportedly attended as children, and also belonged to Father Bobby. In Levinson's carcateral and adaptation memoirs, Father Bobby provides a false alibi for Johnon and Tommy immediately after being brought to a security guard shooting as part of their revenge plan. Jesus' sacred heart and school of Jesus fiercely refutes this claim, calling it "malicious" and defamation (through Catholic League):

"To defaming Catholic schools and priests is malicious. The whole story is a fraud: there was no crime, no one went to reform school, there was no murder and no priest ever gave up."

Now, we do not know if this official statement is true or not, but even the office of the Manhattan District Attorney says there are no records of the case that resembles the one in the book. Although Carcaterra did not respond directly to these charges, he said numerous details in the book were fictitious, and some were changed to protect the involved real people (through Theujork Times):

"You have to change the dates, names, places, people. The way they looked; they must make them look different. If it happens here, you have to do that to happen there."

Carcaterra's claims are backed by his publishers and Levinson himself, who is convinced that these events are credible.

The reactions to the controversy over "sleep" were interesting, to say at least. Some believe that the whole story is a scam, while others think that events have happened, but not in the way memoirs tell them (which advocates carcatel's statement about changing key details). Although the truth is difficult to discover at this point, the fact that Carcatel's book is vibrant, stunning nature's research versus nurturing is not ready for debate.

Whether it's fiction, non-fiction or hybridized account, "sleepers" approaches the essence of life-changing friendships and as the neighborhoods in which we have grown up, ending the types of people we become. Of course, the story in "Sleep" is hyperpecific and may not be applied at the universal level, but it is a fascinating download of these topics that affect the microcosmic world of the book.

Although Levinson believes in Carcaterra's account, he told the Newoujork Times that his interest in adapting the book is reduced to fascination with a central idea of choice, fate and happiness:

"What also fascinated me was the idea that an incident, at one point, could go wrong, and forever change your life. Think about it in my life and some things I did and as a slightly different move could have changed everything. I hate thinking about it."

This unpleasant dilemma is the essence of Levinson's "sleepers", as it is as much as a story of revenge fueled by anger, as well as the tragic injustice experienced by juvenile delinquents due to a broken system. While Levinson's Starwell drama (which is far from his Only traction into bizarre, horror-chorine in the style of a ridicule A few years later) is a deep disadvantage, it is still a story of losing the intestines that forces us to think deeper about its thematic fabric. Whether it is based on a true story or not, it does not diminish the impact of film in any way, and that is what really matters.