It's not even close. This is a real film, with real people. The fact that there are costumes and wonderful high-tech gadgets is entirely beside the point, There are real, moving emotions and plots so fiendish and yet so realistic that you will gasp when you realize the truth. Oh, and Heath Ledger is brilliant. How can this be the same person who played the most closed-off character I've ever seen in Brokeback Mountain be the same person who gave this performance? Amazing.