Telling Lies (2001) Poster

(2001)

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Very simple, very clever and very funny
bob the moo20 March 2004
After going off with a different woman and leaving his girlfriend in the club, a young man is awoken in the afternoon with a call from his mother and then his girlfriend. As the protagonists talk to each other, their thoughts are displayed as text on the screen.

Although the idea sounds slightly corny, and it has been done before in a range of different ways, this short still manages to be witty and quite clever. Part of it's appeal is it's sheer simplicity and it's pace. The plot doesn't really matter in terms of who did what to who, but it is good to see the true meaning behind the words being spoken. Like I said, hardly unique but it still manages to work.

The fast, slick pace to the film serves to cover over the fact that the film is really a little old hat. The film is genuinely funny at times and made me laugh out loud a couple of times. The animation is pretty basic, but the words move very fast across the screen and alter colour fast to the point where you barely get a chance to take it in when the words on screen are different form the words you hear. The plot ain't great but it works well enough for what it does.

Overall this is a basic, slightly unoriginal short but it is fast and witty. It may not sound like much, and it may not stick in your mind for longer than the time you're watching it, but it is enjoyable and funny - that's what it delivered and that's all I wanted.
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4/10
Relationship drama, the audio version
Horst_In_Translation29 July 2016
Warning: Spoilers
"Telling Lies" is a 4-minute animated(?) short film from 2001, so it has its 15th anniversary this year. The writer and director is Simon Ellis and he made this a while before his only BAFTA nominations. I am not familiar with any of the actors. I must say this was not too great of a film. We have a protagonist and we listen to his phone conversations with his mother, (ex-)girlfriend, affair and buddy. And it all has to do with his sexual relationships with women in terms of what they are talking about. We have no clue who is telling the truth and who is not. I personally must say I am glad it was that short because at under 250 seconds it was an okay watch. i still wonder who these people are and why I would care for them. because I really did not. The animation style, simply depicting the phone messages, was as simple as the film itself. I can't recommend the watch.
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