Boy Interrupted, Great Documentary

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Boy Interrupted is a film that raises questions. It asks how a young boy can end his life at the tender age of 15. It struggles to find answers about what kind of family he had and the life he led. By its very nature, it is a naked display of its filmmaker's personal life at its most revealing and perhaps disturbing. How can a mother, we may ask, make a film about the death of her son? What defines this film as a remarkably unique and truth-telling achievement is the way it explores how filmmaking can create closure for its creators as well as its audience. Dana Perry has gathered home movies, photographs, and a variety of different documents to tell the story of her son, Evan: his bipolar illness, his life, and his death, and their impact on those who loved him the most. She interviews his siblings and friends, his doctors and his teachers, and in the process, she chronicles a harrowing and difficult journey. The camera provides insight and revelation, and yet Boy Interrupted is a film that is also full of despair. The film's saving grace is that it functions, in the final analysis, as therapy for both its viewers and its subjects at a most fundamental level. It is an essentially human story, and a parent’s worst nightmare.

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Leaving You: The Cultural Meaning of Suicide

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The Truth About Liars

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The truth is ... we are all liars.

Scientists say that by the age of four we have all learned to lie. We lie to protect ourselves and others. We lie to protect others' feelings, and to get what we want and need. Most of us fib in one of every four conversations that last more than ten minutes. One study showed that university students lie to their mothers fifty percent of the time. We lie in one-third of our conversations with our romantic partners, and we tell the most serious lies to the people we care about the most.

The Truth About Liars reveals the only certain thing we know about lying: everyone does it, and we can't easily detect it.

In this entertaining documentary, world class specialists share their findings and theories about the art of the untruth including: Paul Ekman, developer of the Micro Expression Training Tool and author of Telling Lies, and Why Kids Lie; Jeff Hancock, a Cornell University professor who explores the role deception plays within the internet; Stephen Porter, a specialist in crime and deception as the director of the forensic certificate program at Dalhousie University; and David Livingstone Smith, a philosopher dedicated to analyzing the link between nature and deception and co-founder of the New England Institute for Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Psychology.

From the common little white lie to promises made by those governing us, scientists tell us that lying is part of our daily lives. Lying is integral to our survival, and the ability to lie is fundamental to how far we succeed in our work, romance, and everyday life. Featuring the latest science, psychology, and technology, this surprising documentary also exposes our greatest weakness: our ability to sort the lies from the truth remains in the dark ages.

The very unique relationship politicians have with the truth is also examined by The Truth About Liars using the Watergate crisis, the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal and the Iraq war.

More on the subject

Lies! Lies!! Lies!!!: The Psychology of Deceit

Why We Lie: The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious Mind

The Truth About Lying

Doug Stanhope 2002 Word of Mouth

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Warning, if you're under the impression that this lousy 9-5, flag waving, Ipod buying, Applebee scarfing nation of apathetic consumer idiots that most of the population has been suckered into is just friggin DANDY, then you MAY not like what Doug Stanhope has to say. His extreme vulgarity, I think, is very on par with the vulgarity of this hellish world we live in, so I don't see the 'hes so dirrrttyyyyy' excuse as a reason to dismiss this brilliant, drunken comedic mind. Most people hate his material because more often than not, he'll be describing YOU while simultaneously shredding your silly flawed logic, excessive pseudo-patriotism, rain dance religious hocus pocus, the state of politics and so many other pertinent topics. While Doug doesn't blow his own much, he really does this docile society a favor by rattling the cage a bit so hopefully a few more soulless sheeple wake up from this "AMERICAN DREAM."


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Family Values Are Bullshit

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Taken for a Ride

Banned From The Bible II - The History Channel

David Koresh - Preacher of Fire

So, How Are You Feeling Today?

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Here is how site founders describe the service:

What is Peegly’s Share-your-feelings Service? Peegly is a virtual pillow intended for your inmost thoughts, feelings and emotions. A big, soft and good-natured pillow is always ready to hear you out and help you.

Here you can tell just anything, share any emotions you seethe with or are overwhelmed with. Love and hatred, shame and desire, joy and fear – all these you can surely confide to Peegly.

The main task of the service is to bring down psychological tension and improve people’s mood by creating in them positive attitude and enabling them to express their thoughts and to be heard. All new sentiments appear on the main page of the portal, which gives every visitor a personal ‘podium’ to declare their feelings.

Writing a sentiment is very easy – neither registration nor any personal information is required to do so. If for some reason an author does not want discussion started on their message, they have right to forbid other users to comment on it.

The most thoughtful, original and beautiful sentiments are chosen by users by means of voting. Five best sentiments of the week become a part of Peegly’s weekly email newsletter and are advertised on pages of partnering Internet resources for the entire following week.

Do not hold it within yourself – share your feelings with Peegly!

People come to the site with a wide variety of feelings. Here is one of boredom. Here is one of jealousy. Pride and love are there, too. Some posts are silly and immature. Others are deep and insightful.

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