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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