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.
HarelOn Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 22:04, Marcin Cieslak
<saper@saper.info> 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
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