The Invention of Lying
It wasn't quite as bad as I expected it to be from some reviews I read back when it came out. As expected, though, the concept made my brain unravel trying to think about it. Also, when you got right down to it, it wasn't really a world in which lying simply didn't exist, but one in which telling the truth was super-compulsory, especially when someone walked by random strangers who otherwise normally wouldn't have said anything.
Plus, it was weird how lying didn't exist, but some jokes seemed to revolve around open deception, for instance, what the woman said at the casino. Why would anyone frequent casinos if they said that to your face? Again, it was more about compulsiveness than lying. Who the heck would go on dates in which people insulted each other? Actually, it seems that it would simplify things more, because people's inability to lie for politeness' sake would insure a speedy realization of whether or not the other party wanted to get jiggy all up in the bedroom.
I dunno, it just came off as awkward to me.
Highlights:] Edward Norton's cameo as a crazed cop, and the invention of religion.
Another thing that bothered me a little was the repeated use of montages set to music. It began to seem as though Gervais and Robinson were lost without that particular device. I did like the soundtrack in the main, though.
I kinda started biting myself during the climax when
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Gervais gave his speech at the church. I guess I shoudn't have expected anything different, but I just started thinking, 'Man, why doesn't that chick just tell the creep in the glasses and the fat man to bugger off so she can go back to pleasing herself?!'
Overall, it was *okay*, but not something I have to see again any time soon.
Smoking marijuana, eating Cheez Doodles, and masterfully debating do not constitute 'plans' in my book - Walter 'Heisenberg' White