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How do we know what we know? Atom Egoyan's Where the Truth Lies.

"People are always interested to know what they look like when they are pretending." Leonard Cohen to Donald Brittain in Ladies and Gentlemen ... Mr. Leonard Cohen

Eighteenth--century Irish philosopher George "Bishop" Berkeley would have loved the films of Atom Egoyan. Berkeley's famous dictum Esse est percipi, which translates as "to be is to be perceived," describes not only an organizing principle in the material construction and experience of cinema itself, but also the dominant animating energy of Egoyan's dramas of knowledge and identity. Indeed, fundamentally the cinema of Atom Egoyan is a set of epistemological investigations. All of his films, in one way or ...

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