I have been following your discussion on the unreliable narrator. Actually,

I am at present studying the problem of the narrator in film. If you

consider for example The Age of Innocence, by Martin Scorsese, I think that

the narrator's voice may be too much at some times. Comparing it to the

novel, where the narrator has a very specific function, in the film it

seems, or at least to me, that the camera is by itself a very important and

"allmighty" narrator which makes the voice of the woman-narrator be a little

bit out of place and tone.

What happens with the narrator in film? Can we accept the camera as a

narrator? (in comparison to the narrator in literary works)I am thinking

particularly about those films, like The Age of Innocence, where you have a

narrator throughout the whole film.

I would appreciate any comments.

Gabriela Warkentin

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