{"id":21841,"date":"2023-07-12T22:33:32","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T02:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=21841"},"modified":"2023-07-12T22:33:32","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T02:33:32","slug":"the-invention-of-lying-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/the-invention-of-lying-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Invention of Lying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;So that&#8217;s it, it&#8217;s Coke. It&#8217;s very famous, everyone knows it. I&#8217;m Bob, I work for Coke, and I&#8217;m asking you to not stop buying Coke.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Invention of Lying<\/strong>, released in 2008<\/p>\n<p>Mark realizes he can tell a lie, but no one else in the world can. When he tries to explain it to his friends, they don&#8217;t understand. He uses his power to get his job back and become more wealthy. But he&#8217;s not happy because the woman he loves, Anna, wants to marry a man who has better genetics.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of movies with a unique premise &#8212; this is one.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hilarious and thought provoking.<\/p>\n<p>Stephanie March, John Hodgman, Jason Bateman, and Stephen Merchant have small parts.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Ricky Gervais (<strong>Special Correspondents<\/strong>) and Matthew Robinson (writer on <strong>Love and Monsters<\/strong>). The playful music is by Tim Atack.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 2nd time I&#8217;ve seen it. My previous review is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/the-invention-of-lying\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;So that&#8217;s it, it&#8217;s Coke. It&#8217;s very famous, everyone knows it. I&#8217;m Bob, I work for Coke, and I&#8217;m asking you to not stop buying Coke.&#8221; The Invention of Lying, released in 2008 Mark realizes he can tell a lie, but no one else in the world can. When he tries to explain it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[16,6,5],"class_list":["post-21841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-comedy","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21841"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21844,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21841\/revisions\/21844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}