We can recognize fakery within certain narrow bounds. I've learned to become skeptical of claims that certain people are better at recognizing fakery in general. In the Seventies, certain physicists thought their training made them better at recognizing fakery, investigated Uri Geller's spoon-bending powers and ended up being taken in by crude pickpocket ruses that any stage magician could detect. Magicians Penn and Teller, who rightly found this risible, consequently became convinced they were extra-good at recognizing fakery, applied their powers to environmental science and ended up being taken in by corporate shills like Steven Milloy who used the particular kind of libertarian rhetoric they liked. American liberals who would never fall for that ended up being taken in by Colin Powell claiming he had satellite pictures of mobile biological weapon labs, just because he was Colin Powell and not George W. Bush. And so on.
that all I've heard about the film itself is good. Sure, bad press may be good press, but this movie didn't need bad press to make up for lack of buzz.
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Date: 2006-10-02 02:32 pm (UTC)The sad part is
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