as Fred Madison says in LOST HIGHWAY...
"i like to remember things my own way... not necessarily how they happened".
although not narrated in voice-over, the film is often referred as a
horror - 'NOIR'.
i read the film from being from Fred's POV. we are inside his head.
>every narrator,
>voice over, tells a lie and somehow all the lies ARE actually the truth. We
>see how unreliable each perspective is--and that is the whole point of the
>film--but in their unreliability all these points of view profer the
>philosophical point that there is no "reality." Reality is a fiction.
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "D J Morrey" <[log in to unmask]>
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>Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 4:24 AM
>Subject: Unreliable narrators in film
>
>
>A late entry to the list of unreliable narrators/narrations:
>It occurs to me that Francois Ozon's recent Swimming Pool is trying to
>do something of this nature with the twist at the end, although my first
>instinct is to say that this is an example of an uninteresting film
>trying to make itself interesting in the final reel.
>
>Douglas Morrey
>Lecturer in French
>School of Modern Languages
>University of Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU
>Tel: +44 (0)191 2227489
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