There is No Lie About No Lies

Mitchell Block’s No Lies was captivating. It seems as though it was one long take (when actually it might have been more, since film magazines at the time were only 4 minutes long), but it’s the content that keeps the audience there watching. The invasion of this girl’s privacy, her apparent easy going mood about such a traumatizing event, and the in your face camera action brought a life to the film. I do not understand why certain people say that the director would be burned at the stake if it were not for the credits at the end of the film explaining it was all staged. He expressed real concern for his “friend” in the film and asked her questions like “well did you go to the police.” No Lies was marvelously done in my opinion (with an unorthodox way of going about it but marvelous none the less).