Spoiler warning: The following story includes details of the plot twists and resolution of “The Good Liar.” If you haven’t seen the film and want to preserve the surprises, we suggest you wait to read. “There are a lot of ways in which I’ve described ‘The Good Liar’ in the last four or five years since reading the novel, but timely wasn’t one of them,” Condon says. He didn’t think it was remotely wrong.”Both actors compare the shift of power at the end of “The Good Liar” to the way many productions of Shakespeare toy with classic stories by gender-swapping the characters. “That must be what it’s like to be a woman on many occasions,” he says, reflecting on a particular scene. “Shame it took that production to show it to me.”But like with Shakespeare, “The Good Liar” simply turns a well-trodden assumption about gender on its head.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 18, 2019 12:56 UTC