With glorious recklessness the film rides the anarchic tide of the Elizabethan theatre boys as girls as boys sliding in and out of life and fiction, swapping and smuggling bits of Shakespeare's dialogue, all in a knowing and irreverent way which is at the same time both affectionate and true.
But it would not be the first case of life looking like fiction.
Yet consider this: In 1926 the number one fiction bestseller was The Private Life Of Helen of Troy, by John Erskine.
In addition the chief executive of Valve - the creator of the influential science fiction games Half Life and Portal, as well as the Steam community and marketplace - was honoured with an Academy Fellowship, Bafta's highest accolade.
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OK, maybe the Orwellian type of world in that iconic commercial is more science fiction and good advertising than real life, but Facebook and Apple are showing some hints of a healthy relationship, which may mean we might live to see the day where the two tech giants work together.
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In August, fact will follow fiction with the arrival of the first real-life self-destructing recording medium.
In seemingly unconnected episodes drawn from her work as a journalist and her fiction, she examines the micro-culture of California life.
Successful prose fiction weaves together the fabric of true-to-life experience with the artificial fiber of created characters and synthesized plot lines.
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But early exposure to Donald Barthelme and Thomas Pynchon, opened his eyes to the power of fiction to address what was so confusing in life.
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His biographer, an historian at the University of Illinois, has done a wonderful job in sifting out the truth of Rustin's life from the fiction, and in celebrating the man's extraordinary physical and moral courage.
The twenties, possibly alone among the middle decades of life, are passionately celebrated in fiction and memoirs, and the celebrations tend to share a style that is personal, specific, cliquish, pastiched, breathless, often bibulous, and flagrantly confessional the voice of early mastery without mature constraint, self-discovery at a moment when each revelation seems unique.
The secrecy with which he leads his life makes working out the fact and fiction of his goings-on a tricky business, never mind deciphering what you can and cannot print about his business dealings.
The practical part of the exercise involves proposing how Intel can target future products for these applications, which, upon conception, live only in the realm of science fiction, but which can be brought about in real life by focus and effort over, say, a decade.
Frederik Pohl, a veteran science-fiction author, certainly thinks so, for he has spent much of his life visiting sites of scientific interest both to research his books, and also out of simple curiosity.
In his fiction, the ratio of smart to stupid is far more advantageous than it is in real life, but this is a minor complaint, gladly passed over for the pleasure of reading pages of implausibly brilliant speech.
He had long been interested in the idea of life in space, but that interest was initially expressed only in his science-fiction.
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