In This World Lying Is Impossible, Until Just 1 Man Learns How
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- čas přidán 11. 04. 2023
- In "The Invention of Lying," Mark Bellison is a man who lives in a world where lying doesn't exist, until he suddenly discovers the power of deception. As he uses his newfound ability to advance his career and win the love of the woman he desires, he must confront the moral implications of lying and the consequences of his actions.
Starring Ricky Gervais, Jennifer Garner, and Rob Lowe, "The Invention of Lying" is a clever and humorous film that satirizes society's obsession with honesty and the nature of truth. Don't miss this witty and thought-provoking comedy! - Zábava
"Mark, i'm dying"
"No you're not"
"Damn you're right"
Based on Ricky Gervais comedy thats literally how I thought it'd go, but then it started getting sappy there and thats when I started watching a different movie
Imagine taking your kid to audition for the part of “short fat child”
😂
How else would you describe the part? If they need a short fat kid that’s what they need.
/thread
There would be so much competition for that part these days. The one kid that would be selected would be the most "short fat kid."
Gettin that bag
See, it's good he had a conscience. This could have gotten out of hand in a hurry 😂
2000 years they lie like in 11:00 and nothing got out of hand, sheep still believe in this lie
I'd act in my self interest non stop. "Sir, I already paid for this meal." "You have a Ferrari on hold that I fully paid for... THAT one".
100TH LIKE!!! YAYAY.
@@joshuacrayford7462sure... At first.
@@joshuacrayford7462you're a good person...I would have gone full on villain 😂
I'm assuming politicians and lawyers really struggle in this world
Y los árbitros de fútbol
not really. have you never heard the concept that both sides are convinced they're right?
Theyd still be divided theyd just say the quiet parts out loud
theres probably no court though, the criminals just admit everything
@@raseli-sp7oc they would admit what they are going to do before they get to do it
5:37 Notice the $100 bills have no security features. You wouldn't need any in a world with no lies.
Lol
Nice catch. Never thought it of it that way. I thought it was just a bad prop.
@@amadeolopez76 its neither its old. back in the day the security strip was woven into the bill so it looked a lot different than todays.
100s used to not have a visible security stripe
I was thinking a similar thing, the money itself was unnecessary because he could simply pass bad checks. Or print his own money.
this movie defines the saying:
happiness is a lie.
Lol that has 2 meaning 😂😮
Speak for the heart
Six minutes in, he didn't actually lie that first time at the bank. Taking your word as truth, she asked him how much he wanted to withdraw. He wanted 800. There was no reason to *want* the amount of money he had. He wanted 800, because he needed 800. It wasn't actually a lie. Haven't seen the movie, but this is interesting.
I was thinking the same thing.
that's the point. He never lied.
It's still considered a lie if you know you only have $300 and tell the bank teller you want $800
@@Minnie23_420 no, it is factually not a lie. the full sentence with full details would be "i want to withdraw 800usd, however i believe my account has only 300usd."
if you go to the bank and say you want to withdraw 800usd while you only have 300 on your account, the teller will simply reply that you don't have enough money. that is not a lie.
the lie would be if he answered a question such as "how much money will you withdraw?" and even then, semantically, if the teller does give you that money hat sentence is not a lie. "how much money should i give you?" works better.
It would be considered a lie because he quoted an amount larger than what he had in his account.
The idea that a kid will automatically be fat because one parent is is hilarious to me
Seems plausible to me?
I get that genetics does not directly make a kid fat, but genetics can make a child put on weight more easily, and the habits and behaviors that cause a kid to be fat CAN be influenced by genetics ... in addition to that, people in the same family tend to have similar eating patterns, sedentary behaviors, and levels of physical activity. A child's chances of being overweight increase if a parent is overweight or obese.... so, the genes of the fat parent influences the child to be fat from within (nature) and externally (nurture)
@@mystikmind2005 I never said it didnt, but it is implied that the assumption in this universe is that it’s a must that a kid will be fat if the parent is fat, not just an increased probability. You are arguing nobody
@@pohorex6834 "it is implied that the assumption in this universe is that it’s a must that a kid will be fat if the parent is fat,"
That's just your opinion, which i do not agree with. I think that the point the movie is making is that it was an irrational fear by the woman, but in the end it is ok if it happens.
@@mystikmind2005 what? No, a plot line in the movie is legit “I don’t want to have kids with you because they will be fat and ugly”. There is no opinion there
@@mystikmind2005 the genes barely do anything thats made up, but the eating patterns would do something in a situation outside this one. where both parents realize its wrong.
The real problem is that the movie started as a satirical show with a lot of dark humor (the cop scene where he casually admits his racism and the amount of his bribe, the name of the retirement home...etc) but it quickly devolved into a romantic comedy with the ugly guy get the pretty but superficial girl and save him from a pretty and superficial man. There is even the trope of "Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace" at the wedding. Such wasted potential.
You hit the nail my dude. So much potencial.
The main point of the film is to showcase the ludicrous notion of religion and how people blindly follow it etc, as well as it being a comedy. I've seen this film 2-3 times, it's pretty much just a comedy all the way through.
🙄
@@EdgeLiethe need for a separation of church and state was never for the sanctity of religion but to check the control it had on people.
It seems to be a pattern, there seems to be so many movies that started as original, interesting ideas and devolved into basic rom coms. The Dictator, Downsizing...
"the invention of lying" is such a good movie, incredibly funny.
Robe Lowe somehow ending up the villain
Jennifer Garner portrayed as a shallow bimbo
But Ricky Gervais actually lying to people is the protagonist
Well he didnt just dk bad stuff, he also made a lot of people happy by lying which might make it a good thing.
doesnt he tend to be the "villain"
just because you can't lie doesnt mean you cant keep your thoughts to yourself
I think the premise is more akin to "everyone is brutally honest"
Lying through admission.... idk that's the best I can agrue
Lots of y'all in the comment overanalyzing and taking this film much too literally.
@winglessdraco4865 you mean through omission? But yes that is a lie if people intentionally don’t give details which are key to what’s being said. Likewise there are ways to rephrase lies which would make them true. So there are ways to dodge the truth or respin it such are lies although not being as direct.
Bless you, they misinterpreted Privacy with Not-lieing
I reference this movie all the time. Has always been one of my favourite Ricky Gervais roles… but the part I reference most often is that opening with Jennifer Garner saying “I’ll be five more minutes, I have to finish” 🤣
For me, it's "coke. It's just brown water."
😂 do women really do that before a date? 😂
@@Craftingsteve13 Pepsi. When they don't have Coca Cola.
So many fedora tippers in here think religion was invented through someone lying and lies didn't exist before religion. Atheists are the biggest midwits on the planet
@@aubintasse9031 no. I can't speak for all women but I never heard of this, we mostly get ready, hype ourself up and text our friends where we are and if we don't text them at a certain time, that they call police or look out for us. We also prepare mentally for the best(having fun, kissing and having a romantic evening) but also for the worst, like the dude being a creep trying to r5pe/coerce us and so on. But if we know the dude already to an extend then it's more positive than negative.
I actually like this movie
This was a good movie. Interesting concept and good execution
@@ericschuh9394 Right. A concept like this is interesting but will take some bit of horse power to truly pull off. That’s why In this scenario the A1 execution of the writing is so important to the final result. Great movie
There's a lot of skipped-over premises. For example: apparently no one can be wrong. No one can forget a withdrawal they made (or anything else). No one can go insane. Everyone assumes that whomever they are talking to is not only completely honest, and completely clear (no ambiguity in understanding), but completely correct in their knowledge, even if that's in conflict with other knowledge.
Look at where he tells contrary lies. No one says "oh? I misunderstood what you meant before". No one asked for explanations / expansions to make the nonsensical make sense ("he's telling the truth, but what I hear doesn't match what I know so either I'm hearing or he's explaining unclearly").
It's a cool premise but I really don't like the execution of this inverse version of Liar-Liar.
It's alternate universe...maybe people can't go insane?
and also nobody seems to have the ability to just not say whatever is on their mind. They just outright blurt things like "i hate you" and "i was masturbating" rather then just not saying those things at all. Not lying, just not speaking.
@@TamTroll Yea. Liar Liar had the exact same conceit. Like: it was funny in the beginning when Carry's character clearly intended to lie and the truth blurted out; but later, when it would be completely fine to simply not answer, or give an evasive answer, he couldn't. (and I know he can give an evasive one because of the "a madman at the end of his rope" response to the judge).
@TamTroll Lying by omission. Two people are dating, one decides to cheat. The cheated on never asks the cheater if they are cheating. Is the cheater lying?
@@enameless4003 A lie of omission requires that you tell a partial truth with the intent to mislead. Saying that you met her, drove her home, and dropped her off while not mentioning the road head when asked "what happened" would be an example.
But for the sake of argument; let's assume that said example was valid. What does that have to do with the examples in Liar Liar? Indeed: the only example where he *did* do something other than confess like there was a mississippi squirrl causing him to see Jesus was the time he mislead the judge by stating that "a madman at the end of his rope" had caused his state, making the judge believe it was someone other than he himself.
I'm guessing you don't turn yourself in when you catch yourself speeding? Are you a liar? I don't know what you last ate. You haven't told me.
"You're under arrest"
"Nah"
"Well damn. Guess you're not"
I would love to live in a world like this.
you would not if you couldn't lie either >.>
@@jareddrakencondor4187 You cant miss something that you wouldn't know it exists.
@@nikpapado9785 I've wondered what it would be like to live in a world with limited resources. Imagine you weren't able to just will things into existence. That would probably be a sucky life.
@@ninjaguyYT Honestly no idea, that concept is new to me.
ninjaguyYT What do you mean by you couldn't just will things into existence ???
If people had to be completely honest every single time they spoke human civilization couldn't exist. Marriage, friendship, even just working in groups would be impossible.
Spoken like someone with lots of failed relationships
No, it would lead to people finding somebody that actually likes them.
@@finnnaginnn Hello no. If people were brutally honest, things would go sideways real quick. Imagine just going out and everytime you see an attractive woman with a fat ass, you say that to her face. You go to a friend's home for a meal, he asks you if you liked the food and you tell him its not your type. Dating online and you are like, yeah I m talking to 10 other people so I will wait a little longer to see if you are better than the most.
@@sanketpatel1870 Brutal Honesty does not mean blurting the Truth when no one asked. It means responding with the Truth when . In a world where people are honest, they shall be used to it and probably would have adopted a more civil, constructive, and efficient way of socialising. And dating 10 people at once??? Now that is just strange; if you are dating someone you have to put your trust in them and not simply say "well Justin Case this relationship goes wrong I will have 9 other dates". Also, these scenarios would only be a problem in this current world.
@@finnnaginnn That's the thing. If you read again I said talking to 10 people. Not dating 10 people. Which most people do. Atleast most people with options. And you say a world where lies don't exist would be more civil and shit but you see in this video that Ricky got disappointed by the comments from the chick about him being short and fat and still clearly pursued her even tho he was probably called fat and short by everyone he talked to because of the honesty. So no people have not adopted to this. at 3:30 you also see the dude insulted mark in front of everyone even tho no one asked. He just stated whatever he thought about mark.
Greg was honestly a real one.
Love this movie, it's so fun ^^ And Mark is a real sweetheart, I love how he goes out of his way to help so many people with it as opposed to just being selfish with it~
My guy was incredibly rich, confident, and had a cult following and still had to settle for a 304.
This movie makes no sense because people can genuinely believe something is incorrect. For example "have sex with me or the world is going to end", the woman would just assume that he genuinely believes that and he is crazy and she would probably call the cops or a mental hospital. The movie isn't "what if everyone told the truth", the movie is "what if everyone believed everything anything they're told without questioning it".
Even though the entire movie makes a mockery of religion, it's well done and enjoyable.
i was wondering what you meant, but then i actually got to the religion part and understood. luckily i didn’t call you retarded preemptively lol
It's not a mockery. It's an accurate description of the inherent stupidity of religion.
When describing something accurately makes it look stupid, you should probably consider why...
Mockery? That's what religion IS my dear summer child
You a funny person
for me its not a mockery, the first time that i saw it i understand deeply why religion is so important for some people (the part when her mother died). I am not a religious man but that scene made me understand even a little of it. Yes, it was funny some times, but it wasnt something that you would call mockery.
There's a big difference between lying and keeping secrets. In this world, they don't appear to have either of those. Nor do they have a filter
Idk why maybe it’s because I’m drunk rn but this made me cry somehow
Sometimes I don't even know if I am lying or telling the truth
😭🤣
I live in Japan and it's actually not super far from this. For example, when I go to the supermarket and pay on those automated machines where you scan every item yourself, at the end you have the option to choose how many plastic bags you want (you pay for each one, no place gives you free bags). You can actually choose none and get the bags anyway since there's a bunch of them there at all times. It's just that they simply trust that the customers won't do that, and afaik, we don't.
Also the security guards are like 80+ years old because companies are simply not expecting people to steal stuff.
Self-service supermarkets with no employees in the location are also common.
It’s the exact same in Britain.
Anyplace with self check outs does this.
@westrim yeah, but I don't pay for bags, it's an insulting bs californian thing to pay for bags, and I'm not going to do it.
You paying for them anyways the bags use to be free
Brilliant premise. Great execution. This film is what made the world realize Ricky Gervais was here to stay.
Not being able to lie, doesn’t mean you just have to speak out loud every thought that comes to your mind 🥺
So true
I assume in a world where people don't consider lying, the human brain probably works differently. Possibly to the point where they can't avoid speaking their mind. It's an alternative universe, no reason to think their minds work the way ours do.
Bro literally has the BEST genetics out of everyone in that world.
It's interesting how computers would be made if nobody knows what false is.
It's so amazing the things people come up with for movies/TV shows.
I miss when $800 was all you needed for rent 😭🤣
Lol the sad reality
Problem with the movie is that people don't keep their thoughts to themselves and the movie implies that nobody has ever made a mistake, misheard, or forget information which would make them liars when they do so
I think the moment someone says something, whether it be true or not, it becomes universally accepted as the truth. Even if it was a lie like my neighbor's house burned down, upon seeing it intact everyone would collectively dedude it was rebuilt quickly .
Here's the confusing thing in this world- we know for a fact that alcohol can affect a person's judgement of truth, even in this world, as the woman he goes out with at the start specifies that he is not attractive to her, but by the end of the date believes that she is too intoxicated to make a proper judgement. If she actually had no intent to ever see him again, she would just say so if the alcohol had no effect. As a result, we know lying can be the result of a drunk person. So, what if in the scene where a cop pulled his friend over for drunk driving, he wasn't in the car? Could the friend drunkedly say "I'm not drunk officer", and get away with it? After all, if everyone will assume anything that anyone else says is truth, it doesn't matter if that person is intoxicated or not.
Inaccuracy is not the same thing as lying
@@SadisticNiles it is if the inaccuracy is made intentionally.
I think it's not that they can't say something that's untrue, but rather that they can't say something other than what they genuinely think at the time.
@@jacoblichti1281 sincerity vs insingerity.
also, while drunk, you might sincerely believe you were driving normally, but you still know you're drunk.
Watched this in 2010. I guess no kid ever wrote down a wrong answer in a test in school?
not being able does not equates to knowing all things,
you never studied or say you studied less you are likely probable to get your test wrong
but you could cheat and get past the barrier,
but they can't cheat.
so they wouldn't beat the high watermark.
also the inability to lie doesn't correlates with lack of self will.
'' JUST MY POINT OF VIEW ''
@@sabastineprecious2897 the point is just because people don't lie doesn't mean people don't make mistakes right?
@@nicbentulan yea from my view point,
i'm open to new ideas.
To be on an earth where no one knows how to lie? That is so weird..
YEAH, real weird but it's a movie lol.
Toddlers and very young kids doesn't know how to lie too. They squirm, fiddling around when they lie and its so obvious. But as an adult lying comes naturally, it just vary from harmless lie or very bad lie.
And honestly considering high position with lot of money often require you to lie (politicians, celebrities, lawyers etc), i dont think the movie is that far fetched. Some people are greater liars than others.
Theres not being able to lie, and not going into details and saying everything on your mind. U can ask how was my day, and i can say fine and not give reasons. Like in the beginning on there first date, she could have said she wasnt ready yet and not that she was trying to have some happy time with herself before the date. You dont have to be 100% honest and forward with whats on your mind to be lying. Like be vauge and only give few reasons.
You make good points, but I am not sure I fully agree. There is the concept of lying by omission. You don't outright say untrue statements, but you create a different narrative by only speaking some true things, while leaving out key details.
Communication is more layered than "I speak, you understand". There's things like context, subtext, delivery etc.
A bit simplified, I say something, I mean another thing, you hear something and you interpret another thing.
I think the movie was taking a pretty radical approach and banned lying in all forms accross all layers of communication.
@@corby789 go back to my first example. U can ask how my day was and I can say fine. I don't have to give u reasons. Not lying. Or really withholding info. More like finishing a conversation or giving a general response. I could also say my day was bad. It's not lying to not say everything on your mind. It's also just doing polite conversation. In thst movie universe, there isn't really a distinction between 100% forthcoming with what's on your mind and 100% honest.
Again in the beginning, when he went to pick her up on their date, she could have said she wasn't really ready yet and left it at that. She didn't really have to give reasons unless he asked. There isn't really any discretion or many manners in the movie. When she was on the phone with her mom, she could have said she was on the date and she will call back, not talk about it in front of him amd how badly its going. Say mean stuff about him like he wasn't even there. Or say not really, so he doesn't know its about how the date is going.
There is lying by omission, but that's mostly by the situation. Also if there is any reason to give you certain info.
I remember this movie. It was really funny! Mark is making stuff up like “Errm… Actually” and the other dude has no choice and just says “Darn it!” Or “How?!”
The absolute best Coca-Cola commercial...
I don't think it's possible to talk to your mom after she had a fatal heart attack... 😂
Au contraire, _you_ can talk to her just fine. It's just that very few corpses have been known to answer.
Dawg I’d definitely take over the world if this happened to me 😂😂😂
Id lie to billionaires that they're actually poor, in debt and homeless. Then i take their money and actually give it to people.
Id let them be homeless for at least 5 years and only then i help them. Ill also lie that cats are angels, messengers come directly from god himself.
I see only good things with this ability 😂
This makes me wonder if they’re incapable of deception, or are simply incapable of SPEAKING lies. If no one was capable of deception, that would be a very interesting and different society
Try not to think about it too much, as it derails the entire plot.
One of my favorite movies 💙
the casino part is the most unrealistic part. the house always wins
I don't understand? The guy was just really lucky, and the slot machines were broken.
@@Krab17 oh understandable. here we'll have that fixed in a bit have a nice day.
what i didnt understand about that part was that he supposedly won millions but still everyone called him broke lol
@@brehh1337 Wdym? every millionaire I know is broke
@@Krab17you're right! Those poor millionaires, we really should help them with money. Cant have them sleep on the street like us regular people...
The problem with this show is the fact that people with mental disorders can believe something is true when it's not, and vice versa. This fact makes the whole show fall apart.
If you believe you have a million dollars because you are mentally ill, then the bank tellers would have no choice but to give you a million dollars.
Normal people believe in false things all the time. Have you ever heard of propaganda?
Wouldn’t that basically apply to all shows and movies? Even the commercials?… basically anything on tv?
@@Bangelio All show and moveis are just documentaries telling what really happened, the comercials could be the same way.
@@Bangelio No, because this show is literally about not being able to lie.
Lol, people don't need mental disorders to do this.
I saw this movie years ago, and the narrator of the summary is essentially repeating some of the dialogue as he’s explaining and the thing that surprises me the most is that there’s 21,000 likes on this video of a movie that everyone should have seen. I need to start my own CZcams now.
The cast in this movie is wow!
This entire movie is just someone's maxed out charisma playthrough on an RPG
Honestly if everybody were honest, we will live in total chaos FOR SURE
5:45 "Do you realize what you just did?" "You took your first step into lying!" "Check your pokegear map and see"
I would have completely abused my power and become completely corrupt and basically made myself into a God to them.
Writers mixed up lying with saying anything that comes to mind
Movie director: lets make a movie about lying
Everybody: this man is a genius
People here are not only incapable of lying but also incapable of selective omission.
Mark didn't really lie at first though. He was asked how much he *wanted* to withdraw, not how much he was withdrawing. You would think a society where lying doesn't exist would be more careful in wording.
Really makes me wonder, who was the very first person who lied?
Possibly a caveman. Lying doesn't have to always do through words, I bet during stone age there're bound to be someone that lie (using whatever way they used to communicate) about not having any food or other things so they don't have to share it to other cavemen.
If this was true, I’d lie by omission all day
This movie was hysterical
Wow, that is a great film and thanks for the summary. Whilst I dont agree with lying, it really does make a very solid point about how so many people get ahead by doing it.....particularly with woman.
ty for the introduction to this. I am now going to watch it with my wife. Also didn't want to spoil any more of it for me so i stopped 42 sec in
It is quite dangerous to mix lies and religion... but wait is not both the same.?
Yes
This surprisingly is actually a great movie!
Interesting concept. I like it.
12:13 Eric andre as an extra before he was big
The main guy is a screenwriter?
Is being an actor in that universe even possible?
They kinda lie to be someone else and are reading of a script.
“As an actor playing the role of X I say…”
In the movie they show the "movies" they write. I think its just a guy sitting in a chair reading historical stuff.
Aside from the film, what a cast! Magnets attract each other, truly :)
Brutal honesty has never been more attractive. All jokes aside, i think this method would actually work well in the real world.
He could've literally become emperor of the world
“Hello world leaders if you do not give me full control of Earth then the whole world will explode”
The thing is that it implies that nobody can make mistakes, since it'd be easy for someone to be mistaken about how much money they have in their account.
meh, I think being mistaken but still beliving you are telling the truth "I have 500 dollars in my account" when I have 400, is different front knowing you are wrong and still saying it.
I love this cast
This movie is a true story only thing different is that in the real world everyone lies and no one knows how to tell the truth.
Sometimes they do and no one invented truth and lies.
Liar.
If you're incapable of telling the truth, that's a *you* problem.
As somone with Tourettes this is pretty much just a movie about my people ruling the earth and then some reverse normie takes over by not being neurodivergent. Well, he is diverging from them.
Tourette’s have literally nothing to do with it
this one of my favorite movies
This movie was severely underrated. I mean the scene when his mom dying in the hospital. It was so sad yes so beautiful.
So he was honest, she was wrong, he didn't tell her and then decided "what if I make people wrong on purpose?"
That's how lies were invented... a very realistic portrayal... He said the truth that he would want 800, but didn't say he only has 300 as nobody asked... I find that... a funny way of iventing lies xD
If you were the only person on Earth who could lie/make stuff up it wouldn't take you long to rule the world if that's what you really wanted.
Decent movie 👍👍
watch at 1.75x speed. Its worth it
This world would be absolutely horrible to exist in, imagine the disaster that would occur if you ever came into contact with a child, instant jail time.
bro☠☠☠
Dude, what the hell are you implying?
Tf you mean by that?
So if he invents religion, how come there's a church and priest with a cross?
It explains in the movie they build churches because of his lie.
The ending 😂😂😂
Pov:you realize he’s just the side character and the janitor is the main character.
3:50 thats funny becuase i'd say the most popular movies/tv-shows of this day and age ARE from the 1300's
lmao
vikings, medieival, castles knights etc.
The first American politician
Remember this isn’t our world but everyone all of a sudden couldn’t lie. But rather a world where its always been the case. They are a society where being blunt and rude is normal.
Your very good at this. Keep it up. ❤
You're. 😂 at least type youre. Lol. Im lazy to type '. 😅
@@kishenbinda7226 no, lol
So what happens if someone answers a question with the wrong answer? Happens all the time. It wasn't intentionally lying, but its not the truth... so?
The person is telling you what they think is the truth.
Heaven after death is not a lie but the truth. of course, Mark wouldn't know that in this universe.
he does know. that's why he thinks about it so much and hates it.
11:38
My favorite part!!! ❤😂
this reminds me of ghost town, need more movies like this
MY MOMMY SPANKED ME FOR LYING, SHE SAID "NO MORE LYING YOU FILTHY SCOUNDREL"...
I told you no lying Timmy, now go to your room😡
The thing is even though lying isn’t a thing in that world holding the truth isn’t lying so anyone doesn’t have to say everything on their minds also a movie isn’t a lie it’s a story and they could make one with actual history details but acted
The tap water infused with truth serum lmaooo
I wish this was real life!
not this guy just explaining the entire movie
literally the entire point of his yt channel
@@cylerracer180 is that what recapped means, explaining every detail of the movie?
@@batonifer yes
This was such a good movie
If 4-chan was in this universe so much chaos would in-sue
So basically we're all his descendants