After a short break, we went back to the movie theater which is at a walking distance from our place to watch a light feel-good movie called “Our Idiot Brother.” The first thing that comes to my mind when I think of this movie now is the tag line they have on the trailer and the movie sort of reflects that theme from Ned, the protagonist's perspective-- "if you put your trust out there, if you give people the benefit of the doubt, see their best intention, people will rise to the occasion."
After the movie, I started thinking about a social experiment where a person lives her life in an utterly plain and simple way. I can think of quite a few extremely awkward situations where a plain honest answer just won't fly. We may not necessarily be lying in our head but we have to be involved at some level in what we call in Computer Science world as "information hiding." Bluntly put, in a number of situations, it is more socially acceptable to lie than to tell the truth. I had never thought about it that way until I went to this movie.
