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Given that, what point were you making?
by oldmanjay 10y ago
Given that, what point were you making?
- harryjo 10y agoThe point is, lying is bad, it rips the fabric of society. Fiction is not lying, it is useful, contextualized nontruth.
- toomuchtodo 10y agoLies are the lubrication of society; you're lied to anywhere between 9-200 times a day.
- PhasmaFelis 10y agoI see what you did there.
- sverige 10y agoThat depends on what the definition of "is" is.
- jessriedel 10y agoThat lying to people in order to make your film feel more realistic is a bad thing to do, even if minor in the grand scheme.
- gingerlime 10y agoI don't think the intention was in any way to deceive the audience. I personally see it as part of their post-modern filmmaking[0] style. What personally makes this style interesting to me is that there are usually several layers of meaning and intention. And usually references to other films or common perception or convention. Even if the intention is to tell the truth or a true story, there's always the bias of the storyteller, the selection of what to tell, and what not to mention etc. So in this case, the Coen brothers re-used the "based on a true story" concept, and even exaggerated it. They re-use the format, but mock it at the same time. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernist_film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernist_film
- jessriedel 10y agoIt doesn't stop being an attempt to deceive just because it's self-aware, ironic, or motivated for other reasons. Likewise, murder during a robbery is still murder even if the primary is theft.