Unreliable Narrators - Why We Love To Be Lied To

I also talk to my self 😈

Joe is not in anyway similar to Dexter

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thanks for the allusions. i have a long list of movies to watch up now.

Y’all fuckin with my brain!!! Lol 😂

Please don't mistake unreliable narrator with viewing evenings from different people's perspective. It's impossible to describe the same event 100% accurately by different people because they will have different experience. That's why the interrogators ask to describe facts, what people saw happening, at what time, was anyone injured, etc. That's why I love Lolita because the movie made it very hard to uncover Humbert as unreliable narrator (which is better 'seen' in the book).

"we" dont like to be lied to.

dont think I didnt notice that sly segue with "going into a labyrinth" and then showing Rue from euphoria

I definitely had a "wait, what?" moment in that reveal about the matching tattoos.

The anime film "Perfect Blue" (which 'inspired' Black Swan) is a brilliant example of the narration switching through multiple possible realities to let the viewer experience the protagonists mental breakdown as she struggles to understand what is real. At times it flips through what the protagonist actually sees, what she believes she sees, what her role as an actress sees and even what may have been a dream - with all this switching the viewer has to keep a fluid view of 'reality' or be sucked into believing a false story only to suffer whiplash as the scene changes.

Wow, the fact that so many of these examples are among my favorite films/shows makes me wonder what that says about me

The amount of spoilers in this video is wild

I loved this video. And I think whats interesting is that our media is actually the one gaslighting us, not social media “fake news.” Look at Covid— not a single thing that the main stream media told us was the truth. Origination of Covid? Oh yeah, that’s not a conspiracy anymore. It really DID originate from a lab in China! Vaccines are going to end this pandemic? Oh wait, vaccinated people can still get Covid and it only prevents “severe illness”? Interesting.

Even though The Take would disagree, the mainstream narrative should be taken with a grain of salt. Real pandemics don’t need PR campaigns. War does.

Okay can we get a video about Sucker Punch? I feel like pre Me Too it was regarded as just a sexist mess. But like Jennifer's Body, post Me Too I'm hearing much different discussion--notably among other bisexual women for whom it is a "guilty pleasure".

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I don’t think Rue is an unreliable narrator. She’s straightforward,tells you when she’s lying, and it’s obvious when a sequence is fantasy.

is there a watch list of all movies mentioned?

I’m surprised they did not reference the movie life itself. One of the character’s writes their college thesis on the idea that we are all unreliable narrators and her teacher calls it a failure.

why wasn't 'Flipped' mentioned?

In the end, fiction is fiction, reality is reality, and truth is truth. A failure to distinguish these is why Plato hated poets. Fiction is fundametally and inevitably dishonest and can only aspire to be a mere imitation of reality.

will. that gave me an existential crisis thanks a lot

This is one of my absolute favorite tropes!

Can you PLEASE stop spoiling so many movies without a warning?! Just present a list at the start of the videos or at least in the video description of endings you are going to tell. Why mention Momento in the last 2 minutes? There is no need, but the movie is ruined for my friend now. I had to skip most of this video uncontrolled (without timestamps)

Titanic is another example of an unreliable narrator. The family Rose abandons is vilified and Jack, whom she only knew for two days is glorified when there is no evidence he existed.

I don't think Rue is a unreliable narrator.

Do you have an extra sheet of the sources?

I saw Rue at that thumbnail a while ago and was expecting a muuuuch bigger "unreliable narrator" plot twist in Euphoria ... So I kinda also got tricked into expecting something different ^^

Cloud from ff7 is my favorite unreliable narrator

I beg you to watch the movie Life Itself!!! It's all about the unreliable narrator!

I remember the first time I encountered an unreliable narrator, in Michael Marshall Smith's book Only Forward... While I've found a lot more extreme examples since, the narrator confessing he'd lied or fudged the details of an earlier story amazed me - it felt like a kind of narrative magic trick considering all the books I'd read before had invited me to take the narrator's words at face value and not challenged that assumption.

One thing I really enjoy about Crazy Ex Girlfriend is how we're introduced early to the idea that the musical numbers are heavily filtered through Rebecca's perceptions... then we start seeing musical numbers that she doesn't, leaving us with the question of whose perspective it is and whether it's true and unbiased... I enjoy that we get an outside view on the characters but it's still potential unreliable.

Also in Ridley Scott's "Last Duel" we have it.

Just remember that some are really good actors in real life also and not always for the worse.

LOVED this one! Now I have a list of movies I haven't seen that I simply MUST see!!

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The narrator of this video is in love w brad pitt

God, The Father was such a gut-wrenching experience to watch. Definitely a masterpiece of this trope. It never fails to bring tears to my eyes and amaze me every time even though I already know the plot twist.

I think Ted Mosby should be on this list.

Lord of the Rings has a very unreliable narrator and it fascinates me

Nononono don't spoil Mr. Robot for people. Please!

Synecdoche New York is an incredible haunting example of the unreliable memory and sense of reality.

I've heard of the unreliable narrator trope but it's mostly associated with video games like The Stanley Parable, Bioshock, and Little Misfortune. The first two games have the player given the illusion of control, but the narrator in The Stanley Parable and Andrew Ryan in Bioshock point out that each of these decisions have all been planned out from the start as well as how the player never really had a choice to begin with other than to follow what they have to say. With Little Misfortune, it's actually worse because the narrator in that game tells the main character that he would give her everlasting happiness and she just blindly follows him as well as making the fox boy look like the bad guy. In reality, the narrator is a demon that wants to eat her and the fox boy is trying to protect her from him. In other words, the unreliable narrator has a more prominent presence in video games compared to movies and tv shows.

Wtf is Zendaya doing in that thumbnail? All I see are a bunch of fantastic works of art and then some fart sniffing moron dead center ruining the whole picture

Alright. I’m in. I’ve watched 4 straight and have given 4 👍🏽! Very well written and critically composed insights.

What the (2003 film) Shattered Glass? It had that trope!

I actually like the unreliable narrator. It puts you in a seat where you don't know the story or who is who immediately. I like the naive narrator, who doesn't know they're telling the story wrong because they heard it second-hand, are they don't know how to interpret the events they are talking about. The idea of memory loss, mental illness, or just hearing it from someone who heard it from the original.

It's been a long time since I've seen "Planet of the Apes", but - - - - where was the unreliable narrator?

Did I miss "Pan's Labyrinth" in there?

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Is secret window (2004) a proper example of unreliable narrator, the character that was played by john turturro.