Analyzing Satire: The Invention of Lying People lie throughout their entire lives, some without even knowing they're doing it. We lie about our lives, knowledge, and just about everything imaginable. We do it and look at it as if it's not even a bad thing, when in reality there's nothing much worse. In the movie The Invention of Lying, satire is brought onto the fact that not one person in the world knows about the existence of lying. People carry on living and telling the literal truth about everything there is, wether it’s rude or not. Authors satirize at what the world is like with everyone telling the absolute literal truth, without a single lie.
In the Movie The Invention of Lying there are numerous instances in which satire is brought on the fact that
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In real life we believe in pretty much whatever we would like to believe in. But in a world without lying it's entirely different. In the movie they brought satire onto the fact that there really is no religion in this world. Mark essentially brought religion into their world by complete accident. He was trying to comfort his mother in her last few moments of her existence, telling her once she passes away there's this wonderful place you go with all your friends and this and that. Well that's what most people in our world believe in, but in this world it's an idea that is completely new. In this world of no lying there's just simply nothing for these people to believe in, that is until Mark tells them what it is there is to believe in. When Mark was giving his speech to the entire world, he wrote down ten important rules that you must follow in order to get to this wonderful place after death, he then taped those rules onto large pizza boxes. This is the author's point in satirizing the ten commandments. The commandments were carved into slabs of rock, and the movies satirical twist to it was to put them on pizza