Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite. The only true cinema verite would be what Andy Warhol did with his film about the Empire State Building - eight hours or so from one angle, and even then it's not really cinema verite, because you aren't actually there.
“I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.”