Simply, lying is all over the world, all over the history, or rather it's inseparable part in the human nature, even in its most respectable figures like (George Washington). But the thing that this movie assures is that lying is definitely more profitable in America!
This movie makes its main character triumph when he finishes his predicament by lying, in the trial, and gains his goal / the American nationality when he attested to the other's lies, not to mention the situation of the black singer, and how he already attests to the announcer's lie, as a co-writer of his hit song, just to be popular. The movie was eloquent when it paralleled the boy's insistence and bravery to lie in the face of justice, while he was getting rid of his infantile innocence (the lisp) in the same time, to be ultimately an American Man! Lying, in any society, is a way of living to achieve what do you want, but with something to lose; here, it was the lead's love; logically as his highest truth. I didn't like only the confession of the announcer, or the professional swindler, at the end that he didn't have anything to do with writing the black singer's song; that was sudden incomprehensible idealism!
(Joe Eszterhas), in exceptional time, gives us something to think instead of the regular massive amount of sex and violence that he was known for during the 1990s. Although I'm not sure that the journey of (Karchy 'Chucky' Jonas) presented the experiment's essence of (Eszterhas) himself, but I'm sure that it's his American book of wisdom. Actually, the movie's philosophy proves that if you lied then you must grasp that all of the rest would lie to you. So you have to comprehend it, to attest it; if it gives you any profit, and the most important of all not to believe it. According to the movie's logic, you don't lose when you lie (the boy reached the famous announcer by false letters), but you lose when you believe the lie (the boy believed in the announcer as a mentor and an idol). So it's not just a movie, it's some amusing as well as toughing lesson about pragmatism!
The most crafty and witty meaning this movie shows impliedly is that if you want to be an American mature, then you must be a brave lair. Sense the smartness of it while observing the success of one fat lair at gigantic communication medium, namely the radio in the 1950s as the mass media, and the lie of the boy at the end which made him eventually an American citizen. So if all the people tell lies, then who will going to believe? In fact, it's a world where truth is something not only rare, but not that needed also! It might be the biggest satire about lying, and the American splendor, from the time of (George Washington) to the 1950s, where the events take place, till the 1990s where this movie was made.
You can see (Telling Lies in America) as a movie about a young boy and his corrupted mentor, lying in America, or lying in general. Well, it's a wonderful movie about all of that. (Eszterhas) wrote it in the early 1980s, back when ethical stories were still in fashion, but after years of trying unsuccessfully to sell it, it got finally produced in the late 1990s, by an independent company. I think that's what happens for a movie that wants to tell the truth in Hollywood, without the regular amount of sex and violence!
This movie makes its main character triumph when he finishes his predicament by lying, in the trial, and gains his goal / the American nationality when he attested to the other's lies, not to mention the situation of the black singer, and how he already attests to the announcer's lie, as a co-writer of his hit song, just to be popular. The movie was eloquent when it paralleled the boy's insistence and bravery to lie in the face of justice, while he was getting rid of his infantile innocence (the lisp) in the same time, to be ultimately an American Man! Lying, in any society, is a way of living to achieve what do you want, but with something to lose; here, it was the lead's love; logically as his highest truth. I didn't like only the confession of the announcer, or the professional swindler, at the end that he didn't have anything to do with writing the black singer's song; that was sudden incomprehensible idealism!
(Joe Eszterhas), in exceptional time, gives us something to think instead of the regular massive amount of sex and violence that he was known for during the 1990s. Although I'm not sure that the journey of (Karchy 'Chucky' Jonas) presented the experiment's essence of (Eszterhas) himself, but I'm sure that it's his American book of wisdom. Actually, the movie's philosophy proves that if you lied then you must grasp that all of the rest would lie to you. So you have to comprehend it, to attest it; if it gives you any profit, and the most important of all not to believe it. According to the movie's logic, you don't lose when you lie (the boy reached the famous announcer by false letters), but you lose when you believe the lie (the boy believed in the announcer as a mentor and an idol). So it's not just a movie, it's some amusing as well as toughing lesson about pragmatism!
The most crafty and witty meaning this movie shows impliedly is that if you want to be an American mature, then you must be a brave lair. Sense the smartness of it while observing the success of one fat lair at gigantic communication medium, namely the radio in the 1950s as the mass media, and the lie of the boy at the end which made him eventually an American citizen. So if all the people tell lies, then who will going to believe? In fact, it's a world where truth is something not only rare, but not that needed also! It might be the biggest satire about lying, and the American splendor, from the time of (George Washington) to the 1950s, where the events take place, till the 1990s where this movie was made.
You can see (Telling Lies in America) as a movie about a young boy and his corrupted mentor, lying in America, or lying in general. Well, it's a wonderful movie about all of that. (Eszterhas) wrote it in the early 1980s, back when ethical stories were still in fashion, but after years of trying unsuccessfully to sell it, it got finally produced in the late 1990s, by an independent company. I think that's what happens for a movie that wants to tell the truth in Hollywood, without the regular amount of sex and violence!