Lies imply falsehood.
A lie is an expression that is contrary to what is known, thought or believed . The term is often used in opposition to what is considered truth . A lie, therefore, implies a falsehood .
For example: "The accused claimed that it is a lie that he has a house in Miami valued at two million dollars" , "I will never forgive you for this lie" , "Marcos had to tell a lie to his mother so that she would not worry about him" .
function of lying
Whoever utters a lie expects the other to take his words as truthful. In this way, the person who lies knows that he is committing something fallacious, but his interlocutor may not notice it. That is why we speak of discovery of a lie when the other subject realizes that he has been deceived.
Let's look at an example situation: a child who breaks a window of his house with a ball tells his mother that the accident was caused by a stone that someone threw from the street; The mother first believes the lie, but later discovers a piece of glass embedded in the little boy's ball, who ends up confessing his responsibility .
A lie can be realized even without speaking. A soccer player who pretends to have been kicked may roll around on the grass as if he felt great pain in his leg, although in reality he is only lying so that the referee sends off one of his rivals.
He who tells a lie expresses the opposite of what he believes, thinks or knows.
Benevolent intention
A white lie is known as a statement that is false but has a benevolent intention.
Although it is not a practice welcomed by everyone, it can avoid injury in situations in which the veracity of our words does not have great weight.
The lie of "The Black Swan"
In 2010, a psychological thriller film directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Natalie Portman , Mila Kunis , Vincent Cassel and Winona Ryder was released: "Black Swan" . The story focuses on the experiences of the character played by Portman : a young classical dancer who must face various and dangerous pressures , many of which are typical of the field of academic art.
Throughout the film, many dance scenes are shown, some of which show great skill and reproduce iconic moments from the work " Swan Lake " by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Although the lead actress spent about a year and a half training and adapting her body to portray her role in the most convincing way possible, ballet is one of the most difficult and demanding disciplines in the world, which is why the team hired from early in filming to Sarah Lane , a professional dancer, to act as her double.
Lane works as a soloist for the American Ballet Theater company, located in New York , and has been dedicating herself to ballet since she was four years old. She was chosen as Portman 's double because they share certain physical characteristics, which would facilitate the editing necessary to create the illusion that the actress had done all the shots.
As hard as it may seem to believe, Aronofsky and his team fed the idea that Portman had done about 90% of the dance scenes, and that Lane 's participation had been minimal. The lie, which in reality borders on the limits of absurdity and ridiculousness, served as a strategy to make the judges of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (which has awarded the Oscar since 1929) fall infallibly in love with the work of the film. actress, believing her capable of becoming a ballet dancer in 18 months. The fact that Portman won the Oscar for that role can be seen as proof that the fraud paid off.
According to Lane , his need to expose this lie was not born out of believing that he would not have received his due, but out of love for the art, his art , and out of respect for all true dancers , who must dedicate their entire lives to perfecting their technique and finding themselves before going on stage and dazzling an audience, not with special effects, but with the result of a genuine and tangible effort .