The Invention of Lying 
Movie
Comedy
Romance
Movie
Comedy
Romance
Updated: 1 August 2022
No rape or sexual assault
Rape or sexual assault mentioned, discussed, implied
Sexual harassment e.g non-consensual grabbing, touching, cat-calling)
Sexual relationship between adult and teenager
Child sex abuse
Incest
Attempted rape
Rape off-screen or strongly implied
Rape on-screen

Description

The conceit of the movie is that only the main character can lie, thus everyone believes any lie he says: he attempts to use this superpower to get sex. The entire movie has giant tones of women only having value as baby incubators, and men owning womens' sexuality. The protagonist hits on a woman, who rejects his advances until he says that the world will end if they do not have sex, which she immediately believes is the literal truth. As this does not meet his fantasy (she focuses on the time in order not to die), he cancels the plan and fakes a call from NASA saying that the world will not end. She is relieved and wants to talk, but he just abandons her immediately. This is played for laughs. In a different situation, rape is mentioned in the list of "bad things that if you do you won't go to the good place". There is anothe scene where a female character dates someone else, so the male protagonist gaslights her into not having sex with the other person by saying there is a rule that you can only have sex after marriage. Later, he lies again to have sex with her.

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