Liar Liar

"Ohh well yeah, that's because you have BIG..." slap

I somewhat feel we were more open as a society back in the 90's and could laugh at our own shortcomings a lot better than we can now. I was just watching the whole trailer as I posted this and completely forgot that part of them film. So many giggles.

Jim Carey was a powerhouse back in the 90's. He could go from really funny and stupid to deadpan serious in seconds. His silly antics and boyish humour swapped for a really serious middle aged man. I always admired that about him, and it's why he was quite a big actor back in the day.

Liar Liar was one of my favourites, though. It was when mens rights were starting to be a thing. We had not long before had Mrs Doubtfire which was about a man that loved his kids but was taken away from them through no fault of his own and had to dress up as a nanny so that he could see them regularly.

And now we have Liar Liar which has several subplots in the film that are about loving fathers with their kids and the women that abuse that love and how the family courts were stacked up against men. They seem to be much worse now, but that's another story.

Anyway, we start off with Fletcher Reede, a fast paced lawyer that makes a lot of money from defending criminals in court. The film doesn't outright state this but you can tell by the way the film goes that he makes a living from getting less than decent people off with less than decent things.

In most of his cases it seems that he has to lie a lot to get his clients off with what they did, and, he's made a lot of money from it.

Sadly this rise up the ranks has came at the expense of his ex-wife and son. His wife Audrey, and his son Max are two constant themes in this film and he's always disappointing his son. Mostly it's about telling him that he'll attend a party or be there to pick him up but he has to work and ends up messing things up.

The way the film is set up you can tell this was more than likely a recurring theme through his marriage and probably why they got split up, although they never outright say the reasons as to why they split up, but a lot of it is implied.

Anyway, Fletcher has one too many missed Birthday parties and his son ends up making a wish that his criminal defence lawyer dad can't lie for one day. And, the wish takes affect almost immediately as he starts telling the brutally honest truth right away and we're thrown into all sorts of hilarious antics as Fletcher tries to stop himself from telling the truth.

The film really throws into question how much we lie on the whole as humans and it had me questioning a lot of lieing was a biproduct of speech or working as intended, because it made me think before speech we only had body language and with that you can't lie.

Anyway, a really good film. I thoroughly enjoyed it and I'm sure you will too.

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