"In contrast, I would definitely consider a movie like THE SIXTH SENSE
that makes complex use of narrative conventions in order to mislead the
audience an example of unreliable narration in third person films. The
main question to me seems to be where to draw the line."
Hi Bernd,
I have truly enjoyed all the ideas that people have offered in response to your
original post. I am particularly drawn to your recent point/question as quoted
above. Where indeed? As you have cited the deliberate use of convention in
the unreliability stakes I think immediately of films like "Blair Witch Project"
and "Cloverfield" which have no diegetic revelation of truth and shift that line
you are trying to locate off the screen and into a much broader context,
initially the misappropriation of generic tropes but ultimately a subversion of
cultural/social expectation.
Good luck and let us know of any future chapters in progress you might like
responses to!
brooke
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