The screenwriter who won the Oscar described truth and lies like this... Couple | Truth | Lie
"The 100 minute set is both true and false, with layers of progress and witty phrases." "The script has layers of onion like laughter and outstanding skills." "It is absurd and ridiculous, thought-provoking, and interesting." The Chinese versions of "Truth" and "Lie" have recently alternated between performances at the Jasmine Flower Theater. Two independent yet interdependent comedies analyze how lies maintain relationships between spouses and friends.
Florian Zeller, screenwriter of "The Truth" and "The Lie", is a popular contemporary French novelist and playwright. His representative work "Father" won multiple awards and was adapted into the movie "Father Trapped in Time" in 2021, winning the Academy Award for Best Screenplay Adaptation. Another characteristic of Zeller's works is that he often writes "twin dramas": for example, "Father" and "Mother" have been performed continuously on stage, and another pair of works are "Truth" and "Lies" performed at the Jasmine Theater.
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In "Truth" and "Lies", the characters and relationships are the same, but the two plays tell two stories that can be watched independently, and they also explore the opposing topic of "truth and lies" from different perspectives. In the drama, two couples are also friends with each other. Is it necessary to lie out of love in the complex relationship of four people, and is honesty a witness of love? When lies are intertwined, they are trapped in a mystery and cannot figure out what the truth is.
In 2017, the Chinese version of "The Truth" made its debut at the Shanghai Drama Art Center and was hard to come by, attracting audiences with two or three screenings. At the beginning of 2020, "Truth" and its "Twin" work "Lies" alternated for the first time, providing a more in-depth analysis and presentation of the relationship between spouses and friends. In 2023, the two works received a lot of attention as soon as they were invoiced.
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The Chinese versions of "Truth" and "Lies" in this round are directed by Tian Shui, a national first-class actor and director of the Shanghai Theatre Art Center. Fu Zhonghao, a young director of the Shanghai Theatre Art Center, serves as the rehearsal director, and four powerful actors, Chen Jiaoying, Ma Qingli, Xu Shengnan, and Cheng Ziming, star in the film. The rhythmic scene transitions drive the development of the plot, so the main creator chooses to present different scenes through turntables. Especially in the first three scenes of "The Truth", actors enter three consecutive rooms, lie on three beds, and communicate with two different women. The fluidity of the turntable makes it an interesting moving scene. In terms of spatial layout, efforts are made to restore the size of the real home space and the layout of furniture, and lighting is often used with the effect of home lighting rather than stage lighting.