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.
“Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy.”
“If you look at a lot of people's careers, the first couple of movies, usually, are the most embarrassing.”