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08-22-2009, 05:52 AM
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Just watched Forbidden Lie$; probably the best documentary I've ever seen and definately the biggest mindfuck of a film I've seen in years.

It's about Norma Khouri, a Jordanian woman who wrote a true story that became a bestselling novel about her best friend, a Muslim woman who was murdered by her father and brothers for falling in love with a Christian man. Except it's not true. Or maybe it is, but she changed details to protect herself. And she's actually a con artist, wanted by the FBI. Or maybe she was a well-meaning, caring woman who was used by her abusive, gun-toting, controlling husband and his mother to falsify certain documents. And she was sexually abused by her father from the age of 4. Except that he strenuously denies it and no proof was ever found.

Total, absolute mindfuckery. With every scene, what you believe to be true changes back and forth. Her opponents have strong evidence to back up their claims but Norma is so incredibly convincing. If she is lying, she's the most spectactularly talented liar that was ever born.
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