Well, that's an interesting point about Pulp Fiction, because Travolta is
dead. He is dead in the story itself but alive in the narrative.
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From: "Elizabeth Nolan" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 2:38 AM
Subject: UNRELIABLE NARRATORS
> Perhaps the USUAL SUSPECTS, AND RESERVOIR DOGS (AND POSSIBLY ANTHING BY
> TARINTINO WITH ALL HIS TWISTS
> I WAS REALLY DISAPPOINTED WHEN JOHN TRAVOLTA SHOWS UP HAVE BEING DEAD
>
> HOW ABOUT
> THE THIRD MAN, and the one WITH JOSEPH COTTON AS UNCLE CHARLEY
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> On Sunday, September 14, 2003, at 07:30 AM, Automatic digest processor
> wrote:
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> > Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 12:06:49 +0100
> > From: Volker Ferenz <[log in to unmask]>
> > Subject: Unreliable Narrators in Film
> >
> > Dear Members
> >
> > I was wondering whether anyone knows some more films that use the
> > device of
> > the unreliable narrator, such as Detour (1946), The End of the Affair
> > (1999), Fight Club (1999), Memento (2000), American Psycho (2000),
> > Spider
> > (2002), to name a few examples. What I am looking for is films with a
> > strongly personalized narrator that is either ideologically or
> > morally "not" normal, or narrators that get the events wrong (factual
> > unreliability).
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Thank you very much.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Volker Ferenz
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