Very little of what the film A Complete Unknown portrays is true to history, starting with the opening scenes. It opens with a 19-year-old Bob Dylan arriving by car in New York City and quickly finding his way to Greenwich Village, where a random bearded man in a bar tells him where he can find Woody Guthrie, as if Guthrie’s location were common knowledge in the Village. Woody is a patient at the Greystone Park Hospital in Morris Plains, New Jersey, which it turns out is a psychiatric hospital, even though what Woody is suffering from is Huntington’s disease. Dylan takes a taxi across the river to Morris Plains, 35 miles away, as if that were a feasible thing for a broke 19-year-old to do.
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