Hacker Cinema
Polygraph
2021 · Film · short · 20 min
Directed by Samira Saraya
Yasmine, an openly lesbian Arab nurse, finds out that her lover, Or, an intelligence officer in the Israeli army has been reporting on their relationship. Yasmine's sister arrives for a visit from the West Bank, not knowing that she is going to meet the occupying enemy at her own sister's house.
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I've never taken a polygraph or even heard about this. Care to elaborate?
How is a polygraph test stressful? I mean, obviously it's probably stressful just for the fact that some random stranger is going to ask questions, some of them probably pretty personal, but other than that which I think applies to any random stranger (with or without a poly in hand), why exactly did you make that remark? Is there anything out of the obvious that would make it even more stressful?
The only similar thing I Can think about, was this TV show I saw once (pretty shady if you ask me), where a guy and a girl (best friends testing their best-friendship supposedly) where put on a "polygraph" test (as far as they explained, it was just a heart rate detector), and the tv host would then proceed to make personal questions, getting more "intense" and earning more money as the show progressed, losing money everytime the "poly" detected a lie, or winning if it was the "truth".
At the end they asked questions like, "are you in love with her?" and of course, being that a lot of best-friendships were probably just friendzoned-friends, almost always the answer was "yes".
And so the amount of stress of publicly expressing that hidden love, at the risk of (that almost always happened) having the girl answer the same question with a big "no", for a chance to win money, was pretty tacky and stressful.
Is this related to what you were talking (minus the money,k the tv show, the girl... the fun basically)?