A female undergrad student fakes cancer to nab as much money and fame as she can. This small Canadian indie is not just about deception, but about the fear of being on the wrong side of the moral compass. A film like “White Lie” (01.05.21 VOD) won’t be everyone’s cup of tea because it doesn’t ask for empathy to be showered towards its main character — if anything, directors Calvin Thomas and Yonah Lewis’ timely film is about the public’s willingness to endorse and support a cause without investigation. An insightful and terrifying film, it is also helped by a strong lead performance from Kacey Rohl, one filled with subtle gestures that further develop the mysterious enigma of her character’s twisted psyche. It all amounts to a prescient study in not just the art lying, but in how it has become eerily impossible, in the days of social media, to tell a lie from the truth and the truth from a lie.
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