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Atom Egoyan, CC (born July 19, 1960) is a Canadian stage director and film director. Egoyan made his career breakthrough with Exotica (1994), a film set primarily in and around the fictional Exotica strip club.
Egoyan was born to Armenian parents in Egypt. His family moved to Canada when he was two years old. His work often explores themes of alienation and isolation, featuring characters whose interactions are mediated through technology, bureaucracy or other power structures. Egoyan's films often follow non-linear plot structures, in which events are placed out of sequence in order to elicit specific emotional reactions from the audience by withholding key information.
Egoyan's most critically acclaimed film is the drama The Sweet Hereafter (1997), and his biggest commercial success is the erotic thriller Chloe (2009). Egoyan has been nominated for two Academy Awards: Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay, both for The Sweet Hereafter. He also won several awards at Cannes Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and Genie Awards. In 2008 Egoyan received the Dan David Prize for "Creative Rendering of the Past". Egoyan received the Governor General's Performing Arts Award, Canada's highest honour in the performing arts, in 2015.
It is not the same to love
It's never meant that much
It's teeth you're laughing through
I keep forgetting who you're fooling
Clever crime
Some people who can find the time
Some reason why I can't let go
I think you know
It's unfunny
You know
It's unfunny
Walking on the line
Ignoring warning signs
Is the dagger in your cloak
Or hiding in that joke you're making?
Tell me why
Some people can just hold their tongue
Some reason why I can't just go
I think you know
It's unfunny
As a picnic ant
It's unfunny
As a tired romance
It's unfunny
As your whispered lies
It's unfunny
As your alibies
Oh, to have
Some people who can fake a laugh
Some reason why I can't let go
I think you know
It's unfunny
As a nervous twitch
It's unfunny
As a private itch
It's unfunny
As your whispered lies
It's unfunny
As your alibies
It's unfunny
It's unfunny
It's unfunny