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How about Saving Private Ryan?
 
>>I missed this thread.  Can someone briefly summarize?  If I understand your
>>meaning, I believe that "The Opposite of Sex" also has an unreliable
>narrator.
>
>
>Inspired by "The Usual Suspects," I wondered how many films have the
>equivalent of literary unreliable narrators or indeed what that would
>consist of in a film.  I think specifically it would have to be where the
>viewers actually witness the events described or done in flashback as
>opposed to a speaker or narrator who is simply not telling the truth
>verbally.
>
>LT
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>http://www.tcf.ua.edu/wlt4
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