I'm surprised Fletcher got away with saying this
When Max makes his wish, whatever "higher power" is administering the wish sure is damn strict. Fletcher cannot tell a deliberate innicent lie (like saying the pen is red), he cannot remain silent and feign innocence (when he farts on the elevator) and he cannot even allow a lie told by someone else to go unchallenged (all through the final court scene).
With that in mind, I am a little surprised by one quasi-truth that Fletcher got away with.
After Fletcher beats himself up and is carried into the courtroom, the jusdge asks, "Who did this to you?" And Fletcher replies, "A mad man, your honor, a desperate fool at the end of his pitiful rope."
Okay, that TECHNICALLY wasn't a lie.. but it was definitely a cleverly worded truth so that its meaning was deceiving. As strict as Max's wish was in all the rest over the movie, it hardly seems possible that he was able to get away with this one, without at least saying something to betray what really happened.
Did this line seem a little suspect to anyone else?