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How do we know what we know? Atom Egoyan's Where the Truth Lies.
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September 1, 2005
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- McSorley, Tom
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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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679 words
......that serves as the climax of "Where the Truth Lies" has prompted a bit of a tizzy since...went out with the NC-17 tag; "Where the Truth Lies," meanwhile, will appear with no rating...Drive?" Yes, a great deal of "Where the Truth Lies" comes across as vaguely David Lynchian...
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