“Truth is not the opposite of untruth. The opposite of untruth is still untruth. All extremes are untruths. Truth is the mean between extremes. In other words, truth transcends all extremes.”

The parallel I see from this posting and Dr. T’s is that they are equally silly. We are talking about movie reviews for God’s sake. Either Mr. Petralia saw the movie or he didn’t. If he represents that he is reviewing the movie when in fact he is digging deep into his inner most and past personal experiences (as you suggest) and these experiences have nothing to do with what is on the screen then I’d say that violates all definitions of truth.

It’s one thing to see “Jonathon Livingston Seagull” and describe it’s parallels with religion. It’s another to see “Lord of the Rings” and say that it is a movie about P.T. Barnum.

I’d like to hear Mr. Petralia’s take on this. His response has been notably absent from this discussion.

I quote:

You are the first reveiwer to agree with what I‘ve been writing for the Rhino.com web site. Now people claim that I‘m a hoaxer. See story at http://informedsources.blogspot.com/2005/05/weekend-feature-movie-review-hoax.html#comments
www.informedsources.blogspot.com

Ok, firstly I’ve never heard of Mr. Petralia and I have no idea what he meant when he said that I agree with him since I didn’t see the Ice Princess and I can’t find his review of XXX State of the Union which is the movie that he left his comment on MY site appears.

Rocky, I’d love to help you out, but I have no idea what this has to do with me. I’m a smart ass who writes smart assed reviews for my own and my friend’s amusement. If you want to contact me then you’ll have to send me an e-mail address.

Rocky seems to be trying to drum up support from the Internet community (the very people he deceived). Since he is going out to complete strangers it would appear that he’s hoping that people like you don’t have the time to realize all of his reviews are actually an elaborate hoax. He appears on a popular entertainment site that was until recently a division of Time Warner–making the extent of his deception that much more impressive. This is truly one of the more extensive hoaxes played in some time. Despite reaching out to people like you, he has not bothered to respond directly to us something we have been asking him to do since prior to publishing our article.

It took five years for the first great film of the twenty-first century to arrive. “A Lot Like Love” is a courageous piece of art, drenched in social commentary and dripping with keen observations of the human condition.

I haven’t seen “A Lot Like Love” but from what I’ve heard, I’d say this is another fake.