The movie Fakers is a sharp, fast moving tale of blackmail and forgery set in the upper echelons of the international art society. Set in present day London and 1911 Italy, it's a low budget, but fun movie.

It's by-line? Faking it has never been so good. What a great issue for popular discussion!

Douglas Coupland (the author of the 1991 novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture) writes: “Here’s my theory about meetings and life; the three things you can’t fake are erections, competence and creativity. That’s why meetings become toxic, they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say, 'Mmmmmm. Interesting.' If pressed, they’ll add, 'I’ll have to get back to you on that.' Then they don’t say anything else.”

Life is filled with the fine art of faking. Somehow, people in our culture become masters at it. Truth seems to take a backseat. It was Sir Winston Churchill who once remarked, “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.” This makes what British author George Orwell writes so true, “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

Paradoxically there is a relationship between truth and faking it, as Ralph Waldo Emerson points to, “Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.”

Fakers is a comedy and humor has a way of truth, as American novelist and satirist, Kurt Vonnegut, wisely said, “Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.”

Watch the film and find the truth in the Fakers as they fake it. “The love of truth lies at the root of much humor” -Robertson Davies (Canadian novelist, and playwright).