It's almost as if the female is there to mediate the eroticism inherent in the male dynamic. Like in any movie ever!The concept of “Canadian Popular Cinema” has been dismissed as a contradiction in terms, but is such derisive sentiment towards Telefilm’s zeitgeist-capturing ambitions justified? To find out, Canuckbusters looks back on the last decade or so of Canadian “commercial” cinema.
The Plot: Sure, The Three Stooges all slept in the same bed, and yes, Abbott and Costello looked perfectly presentable from certain angles (well, maybe just Abbott), but it’s fair to say that Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis were the first of the major comedy teams that an average person could imagine in a sexual context. Well, at least until the Frantics came along.
In still-unsurpassed levels of homoerotic bro-itude, Martin and Lewis often hugged, pinched, and even kissed each other on the cheeks during their TV, nightclub, and movie appearances. But hey, don’t get any ideas, pal, ’cause in every interview he’s ever given (most recently in a 2011 GQ profile, but also in every interview ever), Lewis is here to tell you that he has, in fact, done it with a wide variety of girls, sexually speaking. Multiple, even. The GQ article never gets into it, but here’s hoping Lewis was at least gentlemanly enough to refer to his conquests as “NICE LAAAAADIES!”
But I digress. Wading through these murky waters, Atom Egoyan’s Where the Truth Lies takes place 15 years after the acrimonious breakup of Vince And Lanny, a Martin And Lewis-esque comedy team, after the discovery of a mysterious dead woman in the team’s hotel room sated the public’s appetite for their shenanigans and wackiness. Karen O’Connor (Alison Lohman) is “a young journalist, with a few awards, a couple of cover stories, and a desperate need to prove myself” (as Lohman breathily intones in the rather on-the-nose narration), trying to persuade Vince to participate in writing a book that might finally unravel the mystery. By chance, she also runs into Lanny, and, after assuming a false identity, falls into bed with him. A tangled web of sex, drugs, and murder follows suit.
Read further: http://www.avclub.com/toronto/articles/where-the-truth-lies-2005,69085/
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