Screwball Sabotage

“Lying” in the title of The Invention of Lying refers to mankind’s major systems of belief. Ricky Gervais, the film’s star and co-writer/co-director, doesn’t do philosophical scrutiny or hermeneutic analysis; he merely undermines religion using the glib condescension of Hollywood leftists who assume the only people who still believe in God live in fly-over America. A hostile new trend has begun.

Gervais (and his writing-directing partner Matthew Robinson) conjure a world without “deceit, flattery or fiction”—a concept derived from John Lennon’s highly questionable (though rarely questioned) song “Imagine.” Read more