Re: Film equivalent of unreliable narrator -Reply
Wed, 6 Sep 1995 16:38:17 -0400
On Wed, 6 Sep 1995, Panther Rules! wrote:
> Nicholas Roeg's "Don't Look Now" creates unreliability somewhere. But the
> question here is whether or not it is the narrator that is unreliable. In
> fact the narrator is remarkably reliable, but it is the protagonists and
> the viewer's misunderstanding of his visions that creates the
> unreliability. Is this then an unreliable narrator? Or simply an
> unreliable protagonist?
>
> -- Mark Kawakami
His *visions* are reliable but not his interpretations of *reality.* He
mistakes the dwarf murderer for his dead daughter, a fatal misperception,
but one which accurately fits the drift of his visions.
Ron Hoffman
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