Review of film: “THE INVENTION OF LYING”

2009, 09-28:

Review of film:  “THE INVENTION OF LYING”  

     –  The Hunt for BLUNT, where Tact is NOT a Fact!

           Rating:  7.5 of 10 stars (based on an advance screening). =

This movie stars RICKY GERVAIS (who also wrote & directed it). He lives in a world where everyone tells the TRUTH— or, more importantly, goes out of their way to be BRUTALLY honest in spewing forth their various Opinions (whether or not they’re asked for)…

…  Utilizing Tact is an UNKNOWN activity, & the characters in the film (including JENNIFER GARNER as Ricky’s love interest, ROB LOWE as a competitor at work, & LOUIS C.K. & JONAH HILL as beer-drinking buddies of his) turn out to be quite FUNNY in the way they are “open” & massively politically INCORRECT (in a world where we tend to expect the opposite).

…  Please understand:  the IDEA is more understatedly CLEVER than the script is filled with big “laugh” lines.  For example, a home for Old People is named like “A Place of SADNESS Where People Go to DIE”, & so on…

…   At one point, almost by “accident”, Ricky LIES--  & finds that, when people always expect the Truth from everyone, it’s very easy to DECEIVE them & get things he WANTS (like money). In time, he decides to create the idea of an “ETERNAL LIFE”, causing him to be in-effect a media-invented religious-like “GURU” for a problem-filled world desperate for some “good” news…

…  This generally sweet film is whimsical rather than uproarious, & I feel that will LIMIT its appeal. Please understand, I LIKED the concept & basic execution, being especially appreciative of CLEVER work…

…  But, best that, if you go, you’re NOT expecting to guffaw with a series of belly laughs, because that’s not what this film is.

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