The Many Shades of White Lies
Probably you, like the rest of us, have told a white lie – a fabricated fork in the truth, such as a false excuse given to wiggle painlessly out of an invitation or request from a friend you would rather not accept. You know it isn’t quite kosher, false, a lie, whatever its color.
Two movies, The Cakemaker and The Farewell, raise the question of whether it is ever ethical to lie, and turn white lies into a complex of colors.