Kyle Smith, film critic for The New York Post, notes that the new Ricky Gervais comedy isn’t what it seems:
If you saw Ricky Gervais’s delightful romantic comedy “Ghost Town” last year and were looking forward to his new comedy, “The Invention of Lying,” be warned. The movie is a full-on attack on religion and general and Christianity in particular. It might be the most blatantly, one-sidedly atheist movie ever released by a major studio, in this case Warner Bros.
Gervais delights in what a faith-based society would call blasphemy, setting up an imaginary world in which no one ever lies. Except his character, who spreads what Gervais obviously sees as the biggest lie of all: Belief in God.
September 29th, 2009 | 4:36 pm
Oh. Sophomoric atheism. How boring.
September 29th, 2009 | 4:40 pm
[...] of course, belongs “to the world.” And the world belongs to the Prince of the Air, the Prince of [...]
September 29th, 2009 | 7:24 pm
I heard a couple of film critics raving about this film on the radio over the weekend. They were going on and on, non-specifically, about what a brilliant social critic Gervais is and how his societal insights in The Invention of Lying were brave and fearless.
I knew instinctively that this meant the film was going to be an attack on belief. Short of having him performing abortions onscreen, it’s the only other thing that would have made a couple of film critics get so excited.
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