The film purports to have a plot, but it's only a riddle (who is the mystery child?)
The film purports to be inspired by an actual military document.
The film purports to be a history of the American Revolution.
Deller's films and installations purport to honour the unsung and ordinary while actually condescending to them.
The film purports to be part of a "mosaic" of educational resources by the Canadian Academy of Erotic Enquiry.
They object that even as the film purports to argue for tolerance of the grossly overweight, it makes endless fun of fat people and perpetuates cruel stereotypes.
The writer and director, Tommy Stovall, uses the same extremism and rigid stereotyping his film purports to rebel against.
Even if a film purports to be factual, it will be riddled with little fictions.
The film purports to be inspired by a true story, though much of the story is fabricated.
Although the talent agency world, like the rest of show business, must certainly have its share of skeletons in closets, the film doesn't purport to be an expose.