“I have always told you some version of the truth,” says Jack Nicholson’s playboy Harry, to Diane Keaton’s playwright in Nancy Meyer’s Something’s Gotta Give (2008), and I am reminded of someone who told me something similar.

“I may not have told you the truth, but I have never lied to you,” said he, as I discovered the other side of him, a side he was trying to hide, obscure.