Microexpessions

A couple of days ago I began watching the second season of a show called Lie To Me. I saw the first season at the beginning of the year but I didn’t think of it as anything special. It was my fall back show, I only watched it when I was bored and it was the only thing interesting enough to watch. But as I began to follow the show again I realized that I am beginning to see people more clearly now. You see, the show is about these scientist/psychologists/criminal investigation type people who specialize in lying. They can tell how a person feels and whether or not they are telling the truth or not just by looking at them. A raise of an eyebrow, the change in the angle of your mouth, how many times you blink, anything you do is a dead giveaway to how you are feeling; the universal signs of communication. Of course there are the easy ones to pick up, like crying as sadness and laughing as happiness. But the small changes in behavior that they teach about in the show are what fascinate me. I remember having a conversation with my mom where I completely tuned out her words and instead focused on her face, I found out a lot more them what her sentences would have told me. So, I did some research and I found out that the small changes are called microexpressions The Wikipedia definition is: is a brief, involuntary facial expression shown on the face of humans when one is trying to conceal or repress an emotion. Anyway, when I watched T.V. that night it became very clear to me who was ehh and who had the extra spark. The ones who were more interesting for me to watch were the ones who used microexpressions. This reminded me of when Mr. DeLalio replayed the scenes of the two talks with Bela in the movie Kontroll (that movie is still running through my head).