The Supreme Court has taken a somewhat different stance. At least in
two decisions, the Court seems to have acceded to a much more skeptical
position, which doubts the feasibility and desirability of authoritative judicial
resolutions in matters of truth and falsity.111 The first decision is the
aforementioned Senesh judgment. In that case the Court legitimized the
defamatory scene despite conceding expressly that the factual allegations it
included about Senesh were false, and that such allegations were not even
voiced in the depicted trial.112 The dissenting Justice criticized that holding,
asserting that the viewers, who know that the film is based on real
characters and portrays many true facts and events, are likely to assume that
the disputed statement also reflects a historical truth.113 The majority
opinion, however, argued that artistic works, even those referring to
historical figures, may rely freely on imagination and should not be evaluate