All credit goes to Arthur Schnitzler and his beautiful novella "Traumnovelle", on which Kubrick's movie is based.
It never ceases to amaze me what a huge diffrence between the treatment that visitors and locals get at TLV. Even though I fly out quite often, for many years now my longest questioning was maybe 2 minutes, and my luggage was not manually searched at all. Harel On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 22:04, Marcin Cieslak <[email protected]> wrote: > > Who told the security staff at Ben Gurion that CDs have been distributed > as > > part of the welcoming pack of Wikimania? Jeromy and I were requested to > show > > the "CD you received from Wikimania" and we haven't got any. > > One of the psychological techniques used by the security agencies is to > explicitly ask for something not true and wait for denial. The truth > (whether there were CDs or not) is not really relevant to this question > - it's how you react. Probably you are suspicious if you answer 100% > questions > correctly and without any hesitation. Those interviews shouldn't be treated > like a school test - it's not about getting as much correct answers as > possible. > > For an example of a successful use of this technique, see Stanley Kubrick's > movie > "Eyes Wide Shut", the scene during the party at the manor (not recommended > for people sensitive about explicit scenes, usual disclaimers apply). > > //Marcin > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > -- Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
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