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- The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) While Patricia Highsmith’s novel offered up a more gleeful sociopath, Anthony Minghella’s movie adaptation offers room for a bit of pathos without letting Matt Damon’s Tom Ripley off the hook.
- Frost/Nixon (2008) The patron saint of political prevaricators, Richard Nixon has often been a subject of fictional movies and docudramas, but is as slippery in death as he was in life.
- Dick (1999) Sticking with Nixon for a moment, Dick plays the Watergate era as a teen-pal farce, Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams as best pals who stumble into the Watergate break-in while having no idea what they’ve become involved with.
- Catch Me if You Can (2002) Now for the fun, jet-setting side of compulsive lying: Steven Spielberg’s film tells the true-ish story of Frank Abagnale, who claimed to have gone from being a simple confidence trickster into posing as a Pan Am pilot (and also a doctor, among other faked professions) and forging payroll checks to the tune of millions of dollars (it’s not entirely clear if the real Abagnale was exaggerating in his memoir, an ambiguity which plays well into the story).
When you lie, or omit to tell all you know, you are trading on the difference between what you know and what your victims know. You are getting them to do something inimical to their own interests by telling them an untruth or allowing them to go on believing an untruth.
Sep 30, 2009 · The film has one of those scenes at the altar (“Do you, Brad, agree to stay with Anna as long as you can?”) that avoids obvious cliches by involving profound philosophical conclusions. I saw the trailer for “The Invention of Lying” and expected to dislike it.
Oct 2, 2009 · A film review on Friday about the Ricky Gervais movie “The Invention of Lying” referred incorrectly to Oscar Wilde, whose reference to “dreary realism” was likened to Mr. Gervais’s view.
- Ricky Gervais, Matthew Robinson
The Invention of Lying is a 2009 American romantic comedy fantasy film written and directed by comedian Ricky Gervais and writer Matthew Robinson in their directorial debuts. The film stars Gervais as the first human with the ability to lie in a world where people can only tell the truth.
'The Invention of Lying' suffers from the same problem as 'Fahrenheit 451'; just as you need electronics manuals and medical journals to run an advanced society - Bradbury's dystopia would probably have worked if just the reading of fiction were banned - so honesty is not just blurting out the first thing that comes into your head as if you ...
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I watched Ricky Gervais’ “The Invention Of Lying” on Netflix tonight for the second time ever, and was really struck by how legitimately bizarre and uniquely hostile towards humanity the movie is, from every possible standpoint.
