"What did you expect me to do?""Understand."
"Why didn't you lie to me?"
"Cause we said we'd always tell each other the truth."
"What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change. It's the currency of the world."
The last line from the movie Closer caught my attention. I just can't get my head around why people prefer lies over truths. Why is this? So Dan, Jude Law's character, rather not know that the person he loves has slept with someone else? Like her ex-husband? I find this really funny and intriguing, at the same time. I mean, picture this, you're in the same situation as him. Would you prefer to know then and there or later?
And the other thing is that he said that lying is 'the currency of the world', which just shows lying is so common in this world, and people (or should I say everyone?) lie to go about our lives. And it just makes you think that life, love and lies are intertwined together. As if they go hand in hand. One never goes without the other two. It's inevitable. It's like an unwritten law or something.
It reminds me of another line from The Used's On My Own, "Knowing nothing is better than knowing at all". Don't you find it funny too? I personally think knowing is better than not. Why do you want to live with a lie? But thing is, when do you know it's a lie, that you choose not to know at all? How do you know someone is lying, that you better not know? Ahh, another one of life's mysteries.
Go check the movie out. Mr Law is so effing hot. I found it's worth a watch. Pretty witty, too. Well, then again, that's my opinion.
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