I thought it would be a tragic story full of hustle and bustle in the 1930s of the American Beat Generation. The ending was empty, only disillusionment and burning ashes of hope after the prosperity.
Of course I was wrong.
FBI agents team up with two con artists. Originally, the former wanted to use the latter to capture the politician who was taking bribes for himself, but was deceived by the two of them. What is touching is that after these two swindlers committed the last deception, they turned their backs on the evil, washed their hands with gold, and became ordinary people.
Liars have been called con artists. Why an artist? Is there an art to deception?
Of course, deception itself, broadly speaking, is an art.
It requires an ingenious chain of deceptions, a tight fit and a fake show, and a seemingly perfect whopper.
The deception itself is a play, and the liars are actors, directors, screenwriters, prop artists, and make-up artists. They're doing a self-directed and self-acted drama among real people, making everything look so perfect that you can't see through and you're willing to be deceived.
Cheating is an art.
A clever liar makes this art look beautiful, not nasty.
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