History YMMV / TheInventionOfLying

* HilariousInHindsight: Ricky Gervais became the right-wing's new obsession after the 2020 Golden Globes when he told Hollywood liberals to shut up about politics. Conservatives who go into this film knowing nothing about it other than the fact that it stars Gervais will be in for a rude awakening.

* TrailersAlwaysLie: When the film trailers came out the audience assumed the film was a comedy about a man being able to lie in a world that only tells the truth. Instead, the film was a heavy-handed critique of faith and religion.

* FridgeLogic: People aren't familiar with lying, but they evidently are with mistakes; the idea that, if there's ever a contradiction between people's senses or memories and what Mark says, that Mark couldn't just be mistaken, never seems to cross anybody's mind (even in cases where Mark states that somebody isn't drunk, despite physical evidence that they are, and despite how this recasts the assertion of the police officer that they are as a mistake).
** His power could be, not lying, but mind control.

* The movie also seems to really drive home the message that you shouldn't judge a person based off their looks and their is more to them then that. Anna constantly refuses to have a relationship with Mark at first because of how he looks. However she starts to realize she cares more about him and sees other things to him such as his personality and kindness. In contrast to Brad who despite his good looks is a arrogant, shallow jerk and doesn't really seem to care about her and only is interested in him because he is good looking. In the end Anna ultimately picks Mark over Brad.

* UnfortunateImplications: This Bad Romance [[http://badromance.libsyn.com/episode-56-the-invention-of-lying podcast]] has Jourdain and Kyle bring up that the film's premise of taking place in a world where no one has lied before results in rather unpleasant insinuations, such as being pro-eugenics and that convincing a suicidal person that life is worth living is a fabrication.

* UnfortunateImplications: This Bad Romance [[http://badromance.libsyn.com/episode-56-the-invention-of-lying podcast]] has Jourdain and Kyle bring up that the film's premise of taking place in a world where no one has lied before results in rather unpleasant insinuations, such as being pro-eugenics and equating not lying to upfront telling hurtful and unpleasant things to people's faces.

* UnfortunateImplications: At the 6:07 mark in this Bad Romance [[http://badromance.libsyn.com/episode-56-the-invention-of-lying podcast]], Jourdain and Kyle bring up that Anna openly stating that she only wants to be with an attractive man in a world where no one's lied before gives the insinuation that eugenics are okay.

* The movie also seems to really drive home the message that you shouldn't judge a person based off their looks and their is more to them then that. Anna constantly refuses to have a relationship with Mark at first because of how he looks. However she starts to realize she cares more about him and sees other things to him such as his personality and kindness. In contrast to Brad who despite his good looks is a arrogant, shallow jerk and doesn't really seem to care about her. In the end Anna ultimately picks Mark over Brad.

* HilariousInHindsight: Ricky Gervais became the right-wing's new obsession after the 2020 Golden Globes when he told Hollywood liberals to shut up about politics. Conservatives who go into this film knowing nothing about this film other than the fact that it stars Gervais will be in for a rude awakening.

** It often comes off less like this is a world where no one lies, than a world where everyone is a complete {{Jerkass}}. Apparently not only can people not lie, they ''must'' say whatever comes to mind.

* ClickbaitGag: When the film came out the audience assumed that the film was a comedy about a man being able to lie in a world that only tells the truth. Instead the film was a heavy handed bashing of religion by saying that it's all lies or completely meaningless.

** Given that Ricky Gervais, (who wrote the movie) is an atheist, this was probably the whole point. How you feel about religion sort of determines the message - is it a good result that came from a lie, or does it not matter that the result is good since it came from a lie?

** It often comes off less like this is a world where no one lies, than a world where everyone is a complete {{Jerkass}}.

*** "Good lie" or "Bad lie" are not the only options. You do realize there are people who actually believe that Christianity is true, right?

* {{Fanservice}}: Jennifer Garner cheerfully and innocently talking about masturbating.

* FridgeLogic: People aren't familiar with lying, but they evidently are with mistakes; the idea that, if there's ever a contradiction between people's senses or memories and what Mark says, that Mark couldn't jus be mistaken, never seems to cross anybody's mind (even in cases where Mark states that somebody isn't drunk, despite physical evidence that they are, and despite how this recasts the assertion of the police officer that they are as a mistake).

** This troper took the message as any type of religion requires '''FAITH''', which is an unjustified belief. In a world where they take only the empirical facts and surface observations into account, then there is no deductive argument which could work without belief in a higher power.

* {{Anvilicious}}: Religion is '''LIES!!!''' A clever idea maybe but there are people who found devoting nearly all of the entire second half of the film to playing around with the concept to be very heavy handed.