![]() ![]() The basics are true, Benedetta was a real person who did claim to have visions and later was believed to have a lesbian relationship. It all becomes part of the general trend of the film to loosely take aspects of reality and push them in new directions that suit its narrative purposes. It marks one of the many points where Verhoeven dials everything up far beyond what the grounded truth of the situation actually told us happened. This element of the story is not what the documents tell us, instead existing to create an intense final act that places its main character in dire peril. She is only rescued because the whole town decides to rise up and disrupt the proceedings that would have ended in her demise. ![]() Benedetta is nearly burned to death for her actions and is only just barely saved before being completely consumed by the fire. The film creates a much more dramatic sequence of events in the lead-up to that eventual return. ![]()
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