“True Stories” (1986) By BRANDON CRUZ There are the true stories, the stories we tell and the fog of everything in between. The films this month all circle around the power of stories: their ability to obscure the truth or shift the way we see ourselves. Maybe most of all, stories say that we were here. ‘True Stories’ (1986) Out in the plains of Texas, there is a town called Virgil. There you’ll find a soothsayer, a cowboy looking for love and a woman so rich she never needs to leave her bed….
