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The other major problem with the premise of the film is that not only can no one lie, but people are hopelessly naive about anything that people tell them, implying that they also cannot conjure up the idea that people could be wrong about things. He goes into a bank and tells them that the computer has the wrong balance written down and the teller says that the computer must be wrong. Even if I knew someone could lie and they came in and told me that (if I were a teller) their bank balance is wrong I'd be inclined to believe that they just forgot some spending they had done.

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Heh, I also watched this movie through the lens of signaling, self-image, and the nature of humanity, and found that it made an otherwise so-so movie much more interesting. The idea that the guy turns down the first cute random sex partner that he has the opportunity to seduce was a ludicrously hilarious picture of male human nature.

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