dsmith wrote:

 

 

It might be more edifying to identify those films - if any - that do not

use an _unreliable narrator_, since the concept in this thread has being

stretched to mean any protagonist, p.o.v. or plot device, wily-nily. Surely

the thrust of mainstream academic criticism of the past 30 or so years has

been that all literary and filmic utterances (productions) are

_unreliable_, carrying personal and collective socio-political agendas,

which are frequently hidden or camouflaged, and we must tease them apart

(deconstruct) to discover the _real meaning_ (according to whose agenda, ad

nauseum).

 

So, what fictional film does not have an unreliable narrator?

 

 

Isn't it obvious?  Forrest Gump  !   Forrest is reliable in every sense of

the word.

 

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