I saw the movie on Thursday and I think it's interesting how differently the author of this article and I experienced the same movie. They mention their theater was thrown through various emotions...
I saw the movie on Thursday and I think it's interesting how differently the author of this article and I experienced the same movie. They mention their theater was thrown through various emotions but I can only recall laughter in my theater. I pretty much felt unquestioningly convinced from the first to last second that, to some degree, everyone in her sphere is willingly in on it. But many of them are in a state of tacit collusion with each other. They don't even need to speak to each other too much to keep up the act. In the movie Elizabeth and Billy both say they frequently internally consult a version of the other in their heads for business decisions.
One thing I found especially interesting was Nathan and the fake Holmes's review of Elizabeth claiming she wasn't getting any financial kickback. One of them says something like "Either she's telling the truth or she's the most deceptive person alive". I think she's excellent at deception. But I have seen a fairly wide pool of people that regularly train social deception skills for fun (through competitive play of games like Blood on the Clocktower). Of people that practice the skill, Holmes would be a high percentile player but not unheard of. The thing is, in that game and in real life, you occasionally get very high quality information, so the ceiling of effect for that skill isn't particularly high once inquiry has been invited.
I saw the movie on Thursday and I think it's interesting how differently the author of this article and I experienced the same movie. They mention their theater was thrown through various emotions but I can only recall laughter in my theater. I pretty much felt unquestioningly convinced from the first to last second that, to some degree, everyone in her sphere is willingly in on it. But many of them are in a state of tacit collusion with each other. They don't even need to speak to each other too much to keep up the act. In the movie Elizabeth and Billy both say they frequently internally consult a version of the other in their heads for business decisions.
One thing I found especially interesting was Nathan and the fake Holmes's review of Elizabeth claiming she wasn't getting any financial kickback. One of them says something like "Either she's telling the truth or she's the most deceptive person alive". I think she's excellent at deception. But I have seen a fairly wide pool of people that regularly train social deception skills for fun (through competitive play of games like Blood on the Clocktower). Of people that practice the skill, Holmes would be a high percentile player but not unheard of. The thing is, in that game and in real life, you occasionally get very high quality information, so the ceiling of effect for that skill isn't particularly high once inquiry has been invited.