 Wanting to do more than just represent life and death as an opposition , and instead to show the way in which each is inevitably and profoundly involved with the other , Kiarostami has devised a cinema that does more than just present the viewer with the documentable " facts , " but neither is it simply a matter of artifice . Because " existence " means more than simply life , it is projective , containing an irreducibly fictive element , but in this " being more than " life , it is therefore contaminated by mortality . Nancy is giving an interpretation of Kiarostami 's statement that lying is the only way to truth . 
