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Key and Peele's Bullying Skit


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Very good skit.

It reminds me a lot of the movie "The invention of lying" with Ricky Gervais where people are completely honest about everything and Gervais decides to lie one day to get through financial problems. The film wasn't great, but the concept is very interesting and I always found it frustrating that the film really didn't explore the implications of a lie-free world in any depth. This skit shown does feel like it provides more insight into what such a world would be like. Except, of course, the bully wouldn't be a bully, and the parent wouldn't either, and most if not all dysfunctions would have been ironed out generations ago, at a guess. Goes to show how important truth is.

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Very good skit.

It reminds me a lot of the movie "The invention of lying" with Ricky Gervais where people are completely honest about everything and Gervais decides to lie one day to get through financial problems. The film wasn't great, but the concept is very interesting and I always found it frustrating that the film really didn't explore the implications of a lie-free world in any depth. This skit shown does feel like it provides more insight into what such a world would be like. Except, of course, the bully wouldn't be a bully, and the parent wouldn't either, and most if not all dysfunctions would have been ironed out generations ago, at a guess. Goes to show how important truth is.

 

YES I love that movie! It kinda slowed down by the 3rd act but man what an incredible premise. I love how he started making up God, that was very logical at an emotional level for when his grandma was dying. (Grandma right? Been a while since I watched it)

 

As for the bullying skit, it's just so ironic that if those characters had that self knowledge, they wouldn't be the bullies that they are. I guess it's just showing what the underlying unconscious motives there are to bullying.

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YES I love that movie! It kinda slowed down by the 3rd act but man what an incredible premise. I love how he started making up God, that was very logical at an emotional level for when his grandma was dying. (Grandma right? Been a while since I watched it)

 

As for the bullying skit, it's just so ironic that if those characters had that self knowledge, they wouldn't be the bullies that they are. I guess it's just showing what the underlying unconscious motives there are to bullying.

Dw you're remembering it better than me, quite an old film after all. I ought to give it another watch. Yes, it's the same with the invention of lying... In the first scene his wife asks how she looks and he honestly answers terrible or something along those lines, of course it's all just skewed and it's dealing with how our truth-averse world would suddenly look if lying were to become impossible. It goes to show the writers' ignorance (or denial) of the importance of truth in the first place and how it would entirely change the context and setting of the film or skit in the first place.

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 it's all just skewed and it's dealing with how our truth-averse world would suddenly look if lying were to become impossible. It goes to show the writers' ignorance (or denial) of the importance of truth in the first place and how it would entirely change the context and setting of the film or skit in the first place.

 

That's so true!!! I didn't even think of it that way. It was a very chastising way to portray truth. Damn.

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