ShadouTech

Last night I caught Lie To Me on local TV and that was its first episode that I saw (serendipitously the pilot, I later learned). It sold me on the first scene: A professor (Dr. Cal Lightman, portrayed by Tim Roth) lecturing on human gestures and facial expressions. Later they investigated the murder of a teacher involving a Mormon student who had strictly religious parents and a politician who was accused of being involved with a prostitute.

Lie To Me is an investigative drama series -- proximate to CSI, but more on psychology and sociology.


I was a Psychology graduate and I highly recommend it, if not for the perfect accuracy of kinesics* and such, then at least for the lesson that we should not only listen to what's being said by someone, but also consider the contents and structure of the statement and how it is being said; although it would be difficult to not learn a lot from the series.

Of course the series could make people better liars but, well, we could also get better at perceiving lies. It's a game, really, of who's better at which. And despite the difficulties of telling apart a lie from the truth, we should at least realize that trust really isn't the issue, but trustworthiness.

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*No I'm not referring to the application of kinesics in the series, but to kinesics itself, it being another flawed medium of perception.
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Links (additional and redundancy):
Official website on FOX
Lie To Me on IMDB, the Internet Movie Database
Lie To Me on Wikipedia
Current (August 2009) schedule of Lie To Me on CS9 (Philippines channel 9; +8GMT; Hong Kong, Taiwan Philippines)
"kinesics" on Wikipedia
Human Facial Expressions Aren't Universal article on NewScientist.com
Lie To Me Tim Roth interview on YouTube

From a FirstShowing.net item:

ShoWest: Sherlock Holmes is a Comedy? Is It That Bad?

The first thing you need to know is that this isn't the Sherlock Holmes you know… It a funky way, it's kind of like if Snatch were about a British detective from the 1800s, which is exactly what it is, thanks to Guy Ritchie writing and directing.


COMMENTS:

Colin Boyd on Mar 31, 2009
Whose signature top hat is Downey wearing? Mr. Peanut's? Holmes wore a deerstalker.


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~ShadouNote: Most of the commenters liked the fun feel of the Sherlock Holmes movie. I... have reservations about that. That's why I think the comment was cool.
Darn.

Rumor: Stephen Sommers Fired Mid-Way Through G.I. Joe?

This sounds like the kind of story we'd usually hear coming from Fox, but this time it's Paramount. A user on the Don Murphy Message Boards (via Latino Review) has posted an unverified story detailing a behind-the-scenes fiasco regarding the upcoming G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra movie.


COMMENTS:
#4
L on Jun 11, 2009
Marlon Wayans is always the red flag for a movie. I figure Hell is kind of like a nonstop Marlon Wayan's reel.


#7
Bahumbug on Jun 11, 2009
I'm quick to remind everyone that he was excellent in Requiem For A Dream…. but then I remember White Chicks.

Just discovered this item Dugg from a FirstShowing.net item:

Shutter Island, based on an Alfred Hitchcock novel (which I actually only heard about from the film), is already in post-production as listed in IMDB.com.

Shutter Island is directed by Martin Scorsese and stars Leonardo di Caprio who has also starred in Scorsese's The Aviator, The Departed, and Gangs of New York.