Instead he was trying to reconcile something else: How America's people could be so kind, but its politics so cruel.
"I began making this project to reconcile something I felt was under-recognized: the incredible legacy of the influence of women artists and writers on my generation of creative peers," Schneider wrote in an email to The Huffington Post.
"I began shooting my completed project Reading Women to reconcile something under-recognized: the incredible legacy of the influence of women artists and authors on my generation of artist peers," explains Schneider to The Creators Project.
As opposed to the true story of the Supremes, Dreamgirls serves up a predictably upbeat, utterly phony Broadway ending, with the Motown girls fully reconciled, something that most assuredly did not happen in real life.
Of course you can't put a stadium on a high street without making an impact, and shouldn't try, but good architecture is about walking and chewing gum at the same time, such as reconciling something large with something small.
"You talk about trying to unite the party, but I find that quite hard to reconcile with something your campaign did just this evening, which was to publish a list, a deselection list if you like, of … MPs including the deputy leader of our party, Tom Watson, who your campaign think transgressed against you in criticising you.
He built a reputation as a savvy politician, learning how to reconcile conflicting groups, something that may stand him in good stead in a governing coalition – for which he will need to unite more than 60 MPs.
It may be hard to reconcile those themes into something actionable.
This conflict has been caused by differences in political perspective that are no longer seen as something to reconcile but rather as the beliefs of an enemy.
The notion of the floodgates opening is not something you can reconcile with the developments of the markets in China," said Pierre Lagrange, chairman of the Man Group Asia.
These all feature characters — mostly first-person narrators, telling of their childhoods — who need to understand, account for, defend, reconcile, or otherwise deal with something difficult in their past, and storytelling is their recourse.
