True Films 3.0 - Kevin Kelly

With John Cleese
2001, 195 min.
Available from Amazon
Rent from Netflix
The Human Face
The most common, most potent, and most universal symbol is the
Human Face. There’s much that science can report about dissecting
this image, but no one will ever say it in the same witty, intelligent and
silly way as John Cleese and his Monty Python friends. You get Einstein,
Freud, and fart jokes. This series is all you hope a BBC mini-series would
be: educational and entertaining, shifting the way you see things, including
your own face. Five stars.
John Cleese practices the variety of expressions
one face can make. Muscles of the
face are digitally superimposed on a model
(top) to show how we create expressions.
The woman with the distorted face (lower
left) is real and she is very adament on
keeping her face the way it is. In Japan
where smiling is not culturally encouraged,
employees are given smile lessons. They
grip chopsticks in their mouths and grin.
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