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The Invention of Lying (2009)
★ 6.2 · 2,309 ratings on TMDB
In a world where everyone can only tell the truth... This guy can lie.
Set in a world where the concept of lying doesn't exist, a loser changes his lot when he invents lying and uses it to get ahead.
The emergence reading
The Invention of Lying keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing truth, lie, religion, economy, media.
zero-distanceUStruthliereligioneconomymedia
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E8deceptiondeception = impossible (no individual can utter a false statement) (cognition · universal)
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Also bends a rule of reality
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Nope (2022)alters at E8 · same rung · rigorous
The Golden Compass (2007)alters at E8 · same rung · rigorous
Sausage Party (2016)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Dune (1984)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
They Live (1988)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
