Movie : A Truly Touching Gay Love Story
(This post was written by A4A owner)
Every day we are bombarded with depressing news so I decided I should mention a film I found refreshing, uplifting, funny, and so very interesting.
An Honest Liar is a superb documentary about the world-famous magician James ‘The Amazing’ Randi. The story is inspiring on many levels but the most inspiring of all for me was the truly touching love story between James Randi and the artist Jose Alvarez. To be honest I cried a little but don’t tell anyone lol. The synopsis and reviews don’t say much about that part of the movie so I was actually surprised when I saw it. It’s definitely a must-see film.
Have you seen it?
Marc
On your recommendation, I watched the documentary. On so many levels, the love story being a part of it, I thoroughly enjoyed it. For those who believe or don’t believe in faith healers / psychics etc., it is well worth the view. Thanks for letting us know about it.
I saw it about a month ago on Netflix. I was thoroughly surprised by how good it was. The gay part was a surprise in an otherwise totally interesting film.
Is this in Hulu/Netflix/Redbox
Just viewed the film on Netflix… Great story.
Great story. Highly recommended for the way he went after the charlatans alone!
James Randi is the man. He was one of the worlds first and most vocal “skeptical thinkers”. He has debunked more bullshit than anyone else in their generation, he setup the James Randi Foundation where he started out offering $100,000 and later increased the offer to $1,000,000 to anyone who could prove under laboratory conditions that they were psychic, or anything paranormal, from homeopathy, to mind/palm readers, fortune tellers, an people who professed that they could communitcate with the dead, and I don’t want to spoil this for anyone so stop reading if you dont want a spoiler but, NOBODY HAS EVER WON THAT PRIZE, but it’s funny as hell to watch them try and claim it, and they come on stage and give a demostration of their “abilities” and the James comes out and says:- “if you really have this ability then you shouldn’t have any trouble when I put this slight obstacle in your way, because after all, youre claiming that your powers are greater then this obstacle because it is from a high place” and they always seem to loose their abilities after that happens and they make up all these lame excuses on why their “ability” isn’t working right now, but it’s not because they’re total frauds and scam artists. He is one of my influances to becoming a skeptical thinker, something our country and planet could use a lot more of. After you watch his movie, watch his old shows on youtube, they’re amazing!