"Nothing is what it appears to be."

Rating: Null/10 (9 March 2000)

i have not seen the term "lies" used in reviews of this
film, but it's true. a subliminal aspect of this film is
that it's based on lies and uses more of them to sustain
the production. this is maybe the biggest "joke" of all:
against the characters and the audience. "North by Northwest" is not on any compass; Thornhill doesn't have a middle name albeit an initial; Mr. Townsend isn't really, he is VanDamm, and he doesn't live on Twining Rd.; Eve
isn't who ANYBODY thinks she is: not Thornhill or VanDamm; George Kaplan isn't real, even though VanDamm thinks he is, and thinks Thornhill is him, which he isn't. the cropduster wasn't dusting crops; the scene in the mt. rushmore cafeteria was faked; the final scene was phony:
the name of the railroad on the sleeping car as it entered the tunnel is bogus; that particular railroad never transported passengers (or freight) east of the mississippi.