The Take is putting the Gone Girl monologue into every video they can and I’m there for it!
@JC-yy8iv2 жыл бұрын
They actually slowed down on it for a while! It’s been a long-running thing, possibly accidental at first, then people made comments like this one and I swear they started doing it on purpose. I’ve been missing it lately
@tetesperm2 жыл бұрын
here for the iconic gone girl monologue !!!
@kwclove76232 жыл бұрын
I’m so much happier now that I’m dead.
@clarissapizzoni36222 жыл бұрын
And they're right because is a masterpiece
@trinaq2 жыл бұрын
I loved how "Gone Girl" made both Nick and Amy unreliable narrators, in different ways. You may start off rooting for Nick when he protests that he's innocent, until the reveal that he's cheating and Amy's implications in her diary that Nick may have been abusive. Then it's cleverly revealed that Amy orchestrated the entire scheme to implicate Nick, and despite her being totally insane, you're more inclined to root for her over Nick.
@CheziahKatt2 жыл бұрын
To be fair at one point Nick admits that most of that diary is true to his lawyer and to Go. So I think that he might not have been flat out physically abusive and made Amy fear for her life but I don't think it's out of the question that he might have had an instance or two of that shoving
@crod99052 жыл бұрын
I guess I was in the minority that rooted for him lol.
@Puerco-Potter2 жыл бұрын
@@crod9905 I rooted for him the whole time, I actually cheered when she gets robbed. Those guys where angels of justice for me.
@NewGoldie2 жыл бұрын
That was not my view on it at all lol. Yes, Nick's cheating was not cool. But at no point did I believe he deserve the hell he was being put through. Especially once I realized he wasnt abusive.
@CheziahKatt2 жыл бұрын
@@NewGoldie except he admits to the abuse, to his sister, Boney and his lawyer
@growingupwithdisney2 жыл бұрын
Ted Moseby is a SOLID example of an unreliable narrator. Despite how clearly incompatible he and Robin were, he strangely insisted that their relationship was some perfect ending to How I Met Your Mother
@trinaq2 жыл бұрын
Indeed, it's as if he forgot all about Tracy, the titular mother, to go back to Robin. You can't just spend nine years pointing out WHY two people are incompatible, only to force them together for a last minute happy ending!
@Chi_Me2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, and he probably made Barney sound more of a womanizer sociopath than he actually is because he wants the people to think Robin is better off with him. A lot of times in the series he was just as bad as Barney but he always tries to justify his own actions but not Barney's
@lucypreece75812 жыл бұрын
@@Chi_Me i believe that Barney wasn't actually a womanizing player and Ted was just projecting. I mean we saw how Barney reacted when he held his daughter Ellie for the first time and he has some really lovely genuine moments.
@im_a_chair55562 жыл бұрын
I'm still so upset how they completely RUINED Robin and Barney's relationship. To me, the way they spent so much time literally showing us how incompatible Robin and Ted were yet STILL had them end up together is very reminiscent of the real world and how so many people force romantic relationships only because they fit the aesthetic of what they think a perfect relationship *should* be as opposed to what they actually want.
@Chi_Me2 жыл бұрын
@@lucypreece7581 Probably, the "Wedding Bride" movies were probably accurate haha
@lilil97522 жыл бұрын
We know who is the best unreliavbe narrator in whole media history: -Hey Goob what's up? cool binder -Hey Goob , wanna come over to my house today? "they all hated me"
@ryanmerino57472 жыл бұрын
Dude, Meet the Robinsons is so underrated.
@AxxLAfriku2 жыл бұрын
NO, NOW YOU LISTEN TO ME! why should i waste my time at school? i am super famous on youtube. tell me, dear luki
@bubblegirl98542 жыл бұрын
This is so freaky. I’ve been thinking about Meet the Robinsons for the whole week.
@growingupwithdisney2 жыл бұрын
I need to rewatch Meet The Robinsons again, I hear so many great things about it. I’ll probably appreciate more now that I’m older
@trinaq2 жыл бұрын
Haha, love that movie, it deserves far more love!
@TKsh12 жыл бұрын
Unreliable narrators are interesting because you slowly get the "unreliable" part of it, when the protagonist is not good or relatable as they wants you to think and whoever opposes them are painted as antagonists, when actuallt they have good reasons to do so.
@inescastellano79602 жыл бұрын
Mr Robot deserves its own video. There’s so much to analyze.
@jclyntoledo2 жыл бұрын
Yeah I need to go back and re-watch that show.
@flawedsanity2 жыл бұрын
Fully agree
@_ericescobedo2 жыл бұрын
I actually just finished it a couple weeks ago for the first time lol couldn’t find too many analysis vids on it. I’m glad the Take finally brought it up!
@gwenminor92442 жыл бұрын
Mr Robot transcends.
@JermaineYoung2 жыл бұрын
When we discover Elliot was in Jail for most of the second season...... Mind = Blown
@belowaveragejoh2 жыл бұрын
I’d argue that ‘Mr Robot’ is the most empathetic view of the “mental illness” plot twist, namely bc the plot doesn’t cast him as the villain all along and end shortly after the twist: the story continues on, and over the course of the next 3 seasons we see Elliot trying to deny and suppress his personalities before eventually realising they’re a part of him that are here to stay; he’s not fractured, but rather they are the pieces that make him whole, and once he makes peace with that he achieves catharsis
@anitamcv2 жыл бұрын
The final reveal to us that the Elliot we knew was a frame of his personality, as well. And that Elliot took a step aside to let himself arise.
@growingupwithdisney2 жыл бұрын
The first season of The Good Place is an accidental unreliable narration. We knew as much as Eleanor knew, once she figured things out, we had a more balanced view. Then the show had so many plot twists, sometimes I didn’t even know what to believe
@nigahigagreatness2 жыл бұрын
Does any plot twist that changes the MC’s perception count as an “accidental unreliable narrator?” Isn’t that just 3rd person limited perspective
@mindlander2 жыл бұрын
That's not what an unreliable narrator is.
@jamingrythm5842 жыл бұрын
@@mindlander Agreed, she was a reliable narrator. She was just in an unreliable setting and the other characters are lying to her.
@lulu_90002 жыл бұрын
@@jamingrythm584 Could we consider this second-hand unreliable narration? Basically our narrator was the victim of an unreliable narrator themselves - in this case Michael.
@jamingrythm5842 жыл бұрын
@@lulu_9000 Ohhhh, that's interesting to think about
@Crimson282 жыл бұрын
“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist. And like that *poof* he’s gone.” - Verbal Kint
@PokhrajRoy.2 жыл бұрын
The best way to play a character who has no grasp on reality is to be at ease being yourself, because mental illness isn’t always dramatic. The trailer of ‘The Father’ was just brilliant!
@desireuthman38592 жыл бұрын
I wonder how much of Rue's narration of the other characters is inaccurate
@missmeagan81172 жыл бұрын
That’s the interesting thing about Euphoria, that’s even the side character’s stories are narrated by Rue. Rue could be telling a false narrative and simply telling the story their only her perspective
@h33-q8w2 жыл бұрын
@@missmeagan8117 yeah even the play is technically thru rues eyes. You get a couple glimpses thru lexis but that's it.
@AllieOk2 жыл бұрын
It's also kinda weird how the second season uses Rue's narration waaay less than the 1st one, which makes you wonder if we're still seeing things through her eyes or objectively
@indiefairy092 жыл бұрын
@@AllieOk that was a major downfall of the season among other things! It made several scenes confusing
@NeeDatta052 жыл бұрын
Actually, this is why I think Euphoria's glitter on everything and everyone? Isn't true. The hyper sexuality, extreme color could easily be Rue's projection.
@LeahWalentosky2 жыл бұрын
Forest Gump is a prime example of this, he had such a simple approach to life in very dramatic events in history. He became very successful and didn’t think much of it. He viewed Jenny as an angel when she was really damaged and had severe issues.
@brendaea2 жыл бұрын
Lolita was spot on, I genuinely sympathized with the protagonist for a long time, until I realized I was not understanding the point at all.
@evilcleiton37682 жыл бұрын
Indeed, the first time I saw that movie, I taught it was Lolita the one who was provoking Humbert, but now that I' m a grown up I realized that we never saw the real Lolita, just the portray in the mind of a sexual predator
@DieezahArts2 жыл бұрын
Many people fail to understand Lolita regardless of whether we're talking about the book or film adaptations and the fact that in many countries and languages the "Lolita" label has become, in real life, synonymous with the very set of behaviors attached to that character from that predator's perspective is not helping at all. People will call a young girl "a lolita" if she looks a certain way. That and ulterior works from other artists inspired by that perception that Lolita was truly as portrayed by that unreliable narrator is the reason why some people have called for the book to be banned in some places.
@evilcleiton37682 жыл бұрын
@@DieezahArts that's very true, even now that word is still used to describe young girls and is even taken as a compliment or as a pretext to sexualize those girls. I would like to see a new movie ir tv adaptation of this book, but one that actually shows the reality of this relationship.
@SoWhosGae2 жыл бұрын
@@evilcleiton3768 Except the manipulative nature of the narration is what makes the story so sickening and impactful.
@SoWhosGae2 жыл бұрын
@@DieezahArts I think those people who use the term that way just want to see it that way period. They're not just "misunderstanding" the point, they've clearly chosen their side and excuse it and their views are disturbing.
@LilyShimizu2 жыл бұрын
Normally as much as The Take’s videos vaguely intrigue me towards certain movies and shows I haven’t seen before, I typically don’t end up going and watching them. But this one intrigues me enough that I really want to go watch several of these titles right away
@trinaq2 жыл бұрын
Holden Caulfield is the most infamous unreliable narrator ever. He does warn us from the very beginning that he's a Terrific liar, and it's only when he states that he's been telling the entire story from a mental asylum, that you begin to question everything that happened in the story.
@jclyntoledo2 жыл бұрын
Hmm interesting, I just know I hated that book.
@Sai24242 жыл бұрын
@@jclyntoledo big Facts lmaoooo
@Username456-b4p2 жыл бұрын
Huh I took everything he said at face value guess I have no critical thinking
@RinaRanThatWay2 жыл бұрын
I also hated the book
@leelahasan39882 жыл бұрын
I absolutely loved that book for this very reason. Holden being an unreliable narrator made everything mean that much more.
@Yukari07942 жыл бұрын
'Im thinking of ending things' is a good example of this trope also!
@Chi_Me2 жыл бұрын
This makes me question how much of an unreliable narrator I am and what kind of self-serving world have I made up in my head. I remember I had this conversation with my friend once imagining that, what if one day I just woke up in an asylum or something and everything I knew was just all in my head. Like damnnn...
@rescatooor2 жыл бұрын
Everyone is an unreliable narrator, if you think about it. Everyone has their own prejudices and biases that inform their perception of reality. And then there are the other natural limitations.
@GenerationNextNextNext2 жыл бұрын
That happened to me yesterday, when I was quite sure it was Monday. My sibling had to remind me that it was Thursday. I am definitely a horrible narrator when I can't keep dates and times right.
@lovealexxxx34912 жыл бұрын
Ya I think like that occasionally and it’s not fun and thinking why I do that doesn’t make it better. But what I take from this is that it’s better to live with a positive perception even if it seems you’re more vulnerable and blind to danger. Whatever is in our mind is important and has value. We’re not only just experiencing our external reality but also our internal one and our individual view of life is too unique to gaslight ourselves into thinking it’s not real/lacks value
@rk-jn5mp2 жыл бұрын
We don't love being lied to. We love discovering the truth, and being able to claim that we have the ability to do it... because we subconsciously fear that we _do not have that ability._
@theultimatereductionist75922 жыл бұрын
THIS!
@shivanikaushik12692 жыл бұрын
The handmaiden have multiple unreliable narrators...such a treat!
@rescatooor2 жыл бұрын
Characters. Not narrators. The story or the scenes do not change. Their perspective is merely limited to what they know. Edit. Sarah Waters' novel Fingersmith might, however, have unreliable narrators. I do not know.
@gothgammy6662 жыл бұрын
I have anterograde amnesia, not as severe as Leonard and I must say that Memento is a freaking work of GENIUS!! Christopher Nolan definitely consulted with people who have TBI and Amnesia for the film.
@lovemusicharmonybeat2 жыл бұрын
You guys should talk about Euphoria and how we (as a society) need to empathize more. Everyone talks about it at work, but no one talks about how the cast just made some wrong decisions. I think it would be a great topic.
@_desibees18762 жыл бұрын
there's a wisecrack video about how emphaty is work!
@Mia_M2 жыл бұрын
I think instead of the word cast, you should use characters. Cast makes its sound like the real life actors made some bad choices as opposed to their onscreen characters.
@JermaineYoung2 жыл бұрын
Does this conversation also include Nate?
@susiem.20682 жыл бұрын
@@JermaineYoung Yes. Honestly, imagine growing up seeing and internalizing what he saw as a child. At the end of the day, just like almost every character of Euphoria, he's a child missing at least one good parent to base himself on. It doesn't mean we don't hold the characters accountable for their actions though, it's more about being aware of the signs in order to act as a society to break the cycle.
@tofeyinti7412 жыл бұрын
@happy baby they might not have given us flashbacks from her perspective but from Lexi's perspective we see that Cassie's obsession does stem from her father, she trusts the men in her life blindly and she is ready to do anything for them as long as she is loved. If that doesn't scream daddy issues to you I don't know what else would.
@nikofaershee42352 жыл бұрын
I am surprised that Wanda Vision isn't at least nominated here as an extreme level of manipulating the narrative
@gillysummerss2 жыл бұрын
I guess cuz Wanda herself doesn’t explicitly vocally narrate in the third person ?
@kaybee15672 жыл бұрын
I'm so glad to see you talk about Unbelievable!! It's an amazing show, about women, by women, with a mostly female production team.
@megan_mackenzie2 жыл бұрын
This episode is a Literature teacher's dream 🥰
@kimberleywilliams78022 жыл бұрын
right? which is why I love it so much after coming from my Intro to drama lecture.
@summersalt36292 жыл бұрын
actually, THE WHOLE CHANNEL is a literature teacher's dream
@elvieann49492 жыл бұрын
I would love a reference list of the films shown/mentioned in your videos in the description. I often have to go back to search for the title of something I find interesting and want to watch.
@kanwalsheikh94552 жыл бұрын
This!
@Username456-b4p2 жыл бұрын
Yes! Also I keep getting spoilered by these videos because I don't know which movies they're gonna talk about
@danielle30642 жыл бұрын
I never realized the parallels between Mr Robot and Fight Club!
@soskywhatsup2 жыл бұрын
How! It was so obvious! I mean even the plot was similar
@paintingmysky2 жыл бұрын
The Prestige movie is a great example of an unreliable narrator too, actually two of them. Viewers are still debating about it. Such a great film. Loved this video!
@miamonroe32462 жыл бұрын
True. Still confused to this day.
@uglybetty87472 жыл бұрын
@@miamonroe3246 same here but Christian Bale nd Hugh Jackman together is like the greatest treat for my eyes nd mind 😜
@thesourpatchkidd5792 жыл бұрын
Unreliable narrators are always hit or miss- stories either get them right and knock it out the park, really using the trope to its best potential, or they aren't really unreliable at all except for this one key point that hides the twist
@agnessofiacastrocarvalho7742 жыл бұрын
Plot twist: he was hallucinating all along!
@ConstanzaRigazio2 жыл бұрын
Sometimes I feel like I am the unreliable narrator of my own life lol 😂
@audrey21812 жыл бұрын
I know, every time i tell a story that happened to me, my friends remembrr it differently ^^
@ConstanzaRigazio2 жыл бұрын
@@audrey2181 In my case, my friends have a worse memory than mine!
@aazhie2 жыл бұрын
We all like to be a hero, or at least an innocent bystander so it's ot actually an unreasonable take xD
@TheLeah23442 жыл бұрын
When I watched Shutter Island, that’s the first time I learned not too trust the narrator. The ending shocked me.
@h33-q8w2 жыл бұрын
I think it was fight club for me .. haha
@rosiebowers16712 жыл бұрын
It was reading the Murder of Roger Ackroyd at 11 for me. It absolutely blew my mind.
@olivero.18772 жыл бұрын
I’ll always hate myself for accidentally watching the last 10 minutes of it and now I don’t want to watch it anymore cause I‘ll never experience that twist:(
@thesingerintheshower2 жыл бұрын
Really good job on NOT putting an ad in this one as you ultimately urge your viewers to be sure to analyze, research, and verify all new information in order to come to their own conclusions unswayed by self-serving narratives. An ad, any ad at all, may have clouded this point. Kudos and thank you. 💕
@heathernks82 жыл бұрын
Yes! So happy to see that you put Elliot Alderson in the thumbnail! (Especially bc so many of us Mr Robot fans wrote him in on the community page vote!!) Thanks!!!
@נבוהראל-ד9ה2 жыл бұрын
Me too! Now we wait for them to make solo “Mr. Robot” videos.
@carolinalozano44522 жыл бұрын
Damn this one’s full of spoilers 😂 I decided to keep watching bc "how bad can it be?" and now I’ve spoiled myself quite a few series and movies. I’ll still watch them though, they’re not spoiled, really.
@berenicegonzalez51232 жыл бұрын
I know right
@noellavestby21232 жыл бұрын
y’all the Afterparty is a murder mystery show founded on the premise of unreliable narrators each telling the story of what happened the night of a murder. each episode is a character recounting the nights events from their perspective and it is SO GOOD and such a good example on how who’s telling the story can completely decide how the audience views the story. each characters episode accounts the night in its own genre, one persons version of the night is a horror movie, the others is a romcom, another persons is an action movie, another’s is a musical. and you really see each persons own self obsession warping how the story is told and what even happens. the unreliability comes out in subtle ways, like peoples outfits changing, or what’s said in conversations or how people just generally behave. but the unreliability ofc comes out in bigger ways, like a whole plot point where someone is being chased down and then threatened by an angry guy, when finally shown from another persons perspective we see oh that wasn’t at all what was happening, this guy wasn’t angrily chasing him down over what we thought he was, but was just trying to approach him over something completely different, and when we thought he was threatening him he was literally just yelling the word “Koala” over and over again, not threatening him like the first guy thought he was because the first guy literally couldn’t hear him. entire conversations, motivations, and character personalities change based off who’s telling the story. and of course keeping in mind one of the people telling their story is lying, because one of them is the murderer, so the biggest unreliability is in not knowing who’s lying about the entire thing and why. I cannot recommend this show enough it is so funny and so intriguing i’m so obsessed with finding out whodunnit, seriously i can’t stop thinking about who killed Xavier. each character is so thought out and interesting in their own rights, and each has their own colour scheme to reference Clue characters. this show is hilarious and has so many hidden details and it’s a travesty it’s not more popular. final episode comes out tomorrow on apple tv. if you’re interested in unreliable narrators then this show is definitely one to watch.
@gothgammy6662 жыл бұрын
You make me want to watch it more than any commercial, description review has before and I already REALLY wanted to see it!
@gothgammy6662 жыл бұрын
It's biggest problem is being on Apple TV unfortunately...
@imbuffysummers2 жыл бұрын
I literally JUST watched a video yesterday comparing the unreliability of the narrator in the movies Perfect Blue and Momento!
@altameseosborne2 жыл бұрын
I was waiting for that Gone Girl monologue to pop up, and y’all did not disappoint! I love for it every time!
@naomilamont32772 жыл бұрын
"This is The Unreliable Narrator Explained...or is it?" I love this channel
@Debble2 жыл бұрын
The reason we keep falling for false narratives is because reality is actually far to much what you make of it and believing a reality that suits your current emotions feels right as it suits the emotions. As a nurse i see this constandly on both sides of the vaccination debates. The moment anyone gets swept in the emotion that connects them to an argument. They believe a side often more because that connects with their feeling of either their fear of something or their hope to avoid a fear
@Mibbitmaker2 жыл бұрын
Rashomon is practically a trope in itself. Shows like All in the Family and M*A*S*H had episodes based on its premise.
@theorderofthebees73082 жыл бұрын
She’s got to have it is also based on the film
@MChantal762 жыл бұрын
Another great film you could have referenced that featured an unreliable narrator is a Netflix film called "I'm Thinking Of Ending Things" starring Jesse Plemons and Toni Collette. You think it's about a girl who wants to break up with her boyfriend, but it's way more twisted and disturbing and the ending is way out of left field. I highly recommend it!
@robchuk41362 жыл бұрын
Marvel has Moon Knight on the way, and WandaVision took the unreliable narrator and made it a crisis so big the government had to get evolved! It's interesting to see how this is being used in new genres. Anyway, I really need to finish The Affair. And glad to see The Father get mentioned. Really good video, that covered just about all the best examples I could think of and more. 👍
@theultimatereductionist75922 жыл бұрын
"WandaVision took the unreliable narrator and made it a crisis so big the government had to get involved!" Great observation! Great example!
@LeahWalentosky2 жыл бұрын
Cobra Kai is a good example of perspective and unreliable narrators. Johnny makes Daniel out to be the bad guy in season 1 of the Karate Kid events while Daniel makes himself out to be the same hero he was in the 80s.
@uglybetty87472 жыл бұрын
Omggg yessss
@Hallows42 жыл бұрын
I’m surprised The Last Duel didn’t get a mention here. Unreliable narration is the film’s entire M.O., and because that aspect was so on-the-nose, it worked.
@LuisSierra422 жыл бұрын
Maybe cause it is basically Rashomon
@beckybyt2 жыл бұрын
The Last Duel is such a great use of the unreliable narrator! We got to see the truths they tell themselves, and how it colored their view of what happened. So so relevant to today~
@SoWhosGae2 жыл бұрын
They mentioned Rashomon and The Last Duel is pretty similar
@baxtersmom2792 жыл бұрын
@@LuisSierra42 well, The Last Duel is a true story.
@baxtersmom2792 жыл бұрын
I loved the movie "Courage Under Fire" for its Rashomon story telling technique.
@fiestadancers2 жыл бұрын
The unreliable narrator story is one of the most interesting stories imo. Thanks for putting a spotlight on it.
@johndoeing2 жыл бұрын
even when used as a gimmick, it really feels comforting to see people like us as the lead role
@KerryWano762 жыл бұрын
LOVED this one! Now I have a list of movies I haven't seen that I simply MUST see!!
@anacrazygirl2 жыл бұрын
You should consider making a list in the description box of the movies that you are presenting în this videos! I always feel like I should take notes while watching your content. Maby this will make things easyer for people like me. 😁
@manticore57332 жыл бұрын
The anime film "Perfect Blue" (which 'inspired' Black Swan) is a brilliant example of the narration switching through multiple possible realities to let the viewer experience the protagonists mental breakdown as she struggles to understand what is real. At times it flips through what the protagonist actually sees, what she believes she sees, what her role as an actress sees and even what may have been a dream - with all this switching the viewer has to keep a fluid view of 'reality' or be sucked into believing a false story only to suffer whiplash as the scene changes.
@jo_jo_jo2 жыл бұрын
'Cruel summer' better be in this video. I mean, the whole series is a bunch of unrealiable narrator teens.
@NJGuy19732 жыл бұрын
I'll see your Cruel Summer and raise you Yellowjackets.
@corneliahanimann21732 жыл бұрын
You really had to hold yourself back to not play the gone girl narration bit! (I'm proud of you)
@lasttimecommenting2 жыл бұрын
Yeah but why the scene where she hits herself in the face with the hammer! I need a warning for that shit. I thought they were gonna cut away but BAM
@ananya17212 жыл бұрын
Aren't we all a bit of unreliable narrators..?
@ashleightompkins32002 жыл бұрын
This is very true but if we can minimise the inconsistencies, we can still form a coherent and reliable truth
@TKsh12 жыл бұрын
Yes, but unlike this trope, normal people are truthful as possible about what they tell.
@ananya17212 жыл бұрын
@@ashleightompkins3200 Sometimes I feel coherence is relative. I can try my best to articulate the truth but it might not translated to the other person. But we do have to keep trying. 🖤
@growingupwithdisney2 жыл бұрын
Yup, everything we do is done in our perspective. We aren’t that objective as we’d like to think, it’s all based on our emotions and ego. No one is truly the protagonist or the antagonist, we’re too abstract for that
@ashleightompkins32002 жыл бұрын
@@growingupwithdisney We're all dueteragonists, heroes of our own stories, villains of another person's.
@ubanicorn2 жыл бұрын
Saying labyrinth and cutting to Zendaya from Euphoria, genius
@tatigalactic2 жыл бұрын
I have watched "The usual suspects" so many times, it was the first movie that blew my mind with such an ending!
@FabalociousDee2 жыл бұрын
Take...this is such an interesting direction to take the Euphoria hype! I love this!
@ariespharaoh7472 жыл бұрын
Amy was so well written and played, I couldn't hate her. Nick was less likable 😂
@trinaq2 жыл бұрын
Ditto, she's played the audience and the characters like fiddles, so in a way, it's satisfying to see her win, despite her being utterly psychotic.
@gabrielalima81912 жыл бұрын
I think I've seen this movie wrong, because everybody seens to like Amy while I entirely hated her 😆😆😆 ngl I was rooting for Nick after we discovered her plan, and even more when she kills Neil Patrick Harris
@ariespharaoh7472 жыл бұрын
@@gabrielalima8191 if anything you probably watched it right 😂😂
@bindeinermeinung4192 жыл бұрын
@@gabrielalima8191 I hated her as well and I can't understand the hype about her monolouge maybe if the person who talks about those things was a nice person I would love the text, but my dislike of her was too big. Although I didn't like Nick either, I rooted for him. Or maybe I rooted just for the truth and Nick's twin sister. In the end I thought: "well go Nick and stay with Amy, you two deserve eachother".
@gabrielalima81912 жыл бұрын
@@bindeinermeinung419 same. I feel crazy when talk about her like she's a inspiration or something like that???? I do understand the message behind the cool girl dialogue (The Take has a video about that too 😝), but I can't like her
@danielcm42372 жыл бұрын
Brazilian autor Machado de Assis with his book Capitu is the pinacle of the "trust or don't trust in the narrator"
@lollydolly45902 жыл бұрын
I always find it amazing how many examples you include in your video essays, absolutely love your stuff guys ❤️
@PokhrajRoy.2 жыл бұрын
We’ve been so gullible and it’s enough. It’s hard work to find the unvarnished truth.
@LuisSierra422 жыл бұрын
Finally someone talks about Mr Robot
@randoml972 жыл бұрын
The thing about it being harder to work with unreliable narration in film made me wonder why, and I have two thoughts: 1) the way cameras are used movies always feel like an omnipotent 3erd person perspective, which (correct me if I'm wrong) are never untrustworthy. 2) when we see things in a movie the unreliable event feels more real and therefore harder to distrust
@hannamakela69892 жыл бұрын
This is the beauty of fiction: by engaging with unreliability it reveals its existence in the actual (but not always factual) world. I always get frustrated when "fiction" is used as a synonym to "lie," when it is the exact opposite: a way of knowing the truth. Not the only way (there is also science and history). But one very potent and privileged way.
@saritaramirez6452 жыл бұрын
So happy you mentioned “The Affair”!
@brittjazske2 жыл бұрын
Take a shot every time a Take video shows the "Cool Girl" clip. IS IT EVERY TIME?
@srajeshtuladhar24162 жыл бұрын
The last line of the video, really awesome!
@fruzsinadzsenifernagy2313 Жыл бұрын
God, The Father was such a gut-wrenching experience to watch. Definitely a masterpiece of this trope. It never fails to bring tears to my eyes and amaze me every time even though I already know the plot twist.
@tmartz2 жыл бұрын
Surprised there was no mention of ‘The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby’ which has a version from each point of view.
@SoWhosGae2 жыл бұрын
Same
@nclsaqno72972 жыл бұрын
“a beautiful mind”
@wiiink2 жыл бұрын
I think the most unreliable narrator I've ever seen is the protagonist of Legion. Even though it's an X-men show it's really artistic and between the main character having both schizophrenia and reality altering/mind altering superpowers and the artistic style of the show in general, it can be really hard to understand what's happening in the show because the main character doesn't even know what's happening most of the time but it's beautiful nonetheless. I think it's severely underrated
@naturalcurlbeauty63972 жыл бұрын
Would it be possible to get a list of movies/ shows referenced in the description?
@witchplease96952 жыл бұрын
I’m looking forward to Moon Knight for this reason. I enjoy an unreliable narrator story. It’s a psychological mystery for the audience to uncover
@Mish10B2 жыл бұрын
Alias Grace should have been mentioned. Such a great underrated show.
@RoburDrake2 жыл бұрын
I definitely had a "wait, what?" moment in that reveal about the matching tattoos.
@shivanikaushik12692 жыл бұрын
Feels like it will give a lot of spoilers ...and yeah, it did ! (Spoiled the endings of many of the movies on my watching list)
@DieezahArts2 жыл бұрын
The unreliable narrator is really an effective technique to have the audience rooting for a character they would otherwise be quick to distrust or condemn, as they're engaging in questionable if not downright criminal behaviors. In the short British TV series The Drowning, the story's protagonist would be seen as an antagonist without this narrative device. Things would be less confusing in the series Behind her Eyes without this as well. By the time you realize the unreliable nature of these narrators you already care too much about their characters to start viewing them in any objective manner.
@saanasalonen86842 жыл бұрын
this channel has saved my life. and ty again for giving me something new, i was not aware of the movie anette. im def watching it tomorrow!
@JermaineYoung2 жыл бұрын
Joe in You continually tries to convince the audience that he is "saving" a helpless vixen from harm. After applying the unreliable trope to the premise of the show its hard not to think about the true nature and motive of Beck and others. It makes you really think, "Was Peach as manipulative as she was portrayed", or, "Was Beck as flighty and immature as we came to know her". It would interesting to see the story of You from a different character's perspective because most fans stanning for Joe justify it by the fact that he's ultimately attracted to horrible women that give Joe reason and motive for his unorthodox actions. Just a thought.
@marzia33262 жыл бұрын
Mr robot deserves a video to itself.
@nykole19632 жыл бұрын
Two movies to bring in for this video that would have been good would have been 12 Angry Men and The Others. Great movies. 12AM starts off as a misdirection, and The Others plays it out slowly for you to figure it out on your own, however, you can tell right away if you pay close attention :D
@replicantech69212 жыл бұрын
Great video and topic, thanks!!
@andreabanuelosavila23172 жыл бұрын
In a visual media, there are no reliable narrators. Everyone has different POVs and if you dare to step into the other side of the coin you can discover something new.
@aniokay Жыл бұрын
Synecdoche New York is an incredible haunting example of the unreliable memory and sense of reality.
@literaterose67312 жыл бұрын
One of my very favorite examples of an unreliable narrator (both book and film) is Shirley Jackson’s “We Have Always Lived In the Castle.” Particularly in the book, the process of figuring out what may or may not be real via what the narrator, Merricat, tells the reader is very uncertain. Things *feel* off, but you can’t necessarily figure out why. The film, with Taissa Farmiga in the central role (she was fantastic) manages to capture the atmosphere and unfolding reality really well. I’d add to the list One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest too, particularly the book.
@mysteriiis2 жыл бұрын
There's a film version? Sweet, I didn't know that!
@literaterose67312 жыл бұрын
@@mysteriiis Glad I mentioned it, I think it’s way too far under the radar for a surprisingly good adaptation (and boy was I anxious about whether they’d do it justice). At least in my location, it’s currently on Netflix, as well as really cheap to rent on Amazon. I also recommend super highly the audiobook version read by Bernadette Dunne, which was the most recent way I read it-it’s incredibly well done, funny and unnerving and tragic through a truly skilled voice performance. Hope you enjoy it!
@mysteriiis2 жыл бұрын
@@literaterose6731 That sounds awesome, thanks!
@SoWhosGae2 жыл бұрын
@@literaterose6731 Not too far for me I guess. 😜 I saw it. I'm always on the hunt for classic book adaptations.
@JMK212 жыл бұрын
I think you should a take on "For the greater good" you can reference the 100, Clarke is a sucker for that, and also Handmaid's tale
@_alanawalker2 жыл бұрын
This Take video was very much needed
@GenerationNextNextNext2 жыл бұрын
How an "unreliable" narrator wraps us in is how every day people get swept in cults. We expect objective truths from the stories we watch or read when most minds are not objective. Much of our experiences that help us identify with characters are subjective.
@editor42012 жыл бұрын
Wow, the fact that so many of these examples are among my favorite films/shows makes me wonder what that says about me
@yoyodre2 жыл бұрын
The series finale of I May Destroy You demonstrates this perfectly.
@Puerco-Potter2 жыл бұрын
The Take, or the "Gone Girl is the most influential work in existence" university. Hahahaha
@MrDslacker2 жыл бұрын
Every single war-movie ever made pretty much has an unreliable narrator, since the director clearly has a POV. There you go - idea for another Take. For that matter you can go through every single genre of movie and find an unreliable narrator...
@indigoziona2 жыл бұрын
I remember the first time I encountered an unreliable narrator, in Michael Marshall Smith's book Only Forward... While I've found a lot more extreme examples since, the narrator confessing he'd lied or fudged the details of an earlier story amazed me - it felt like a kind of narrative magic trick considering all the books I'd read before had invited me to take the narrator's words at face value and not challenged that assumption.
@stooph2 жыл бұрын
Amazing editing!
@amiraameera83022 жыл бұрын
Is there a list of featured films and/or series? I can never remember the ones I want to check out after the video ends 😅
@miamonroe32462 жыл бұрын
"The Others" with Nicole Kidman is another good one
@Username456-b4p2 жыл бұрын
Hi :) Could you please start using spoiler warnings for all mentioned movies? I know a lot of these are older films but a lot of people haven't seen them even though they want to (since nobody has the time to watch every great film out there). It wouldn't take long to put a little wanting before fight club like you did with shutter island. Personally I was too young to watch fight club when it came out but I was planning to watch it this weekend... Oof But thank you for all these videos, I love them!
@funkyunclenardi11 ай бұрын
Alright. I’m in. I’ve watched 4 straight and have given 4 👍🏽! Very well written and critically composed insights.
@dianamorales10302 жыл бұрын
the take please do more euphoria videos!!!!
@helenelouiseemmasarr9582 жыл бұрын
Why the spoiler alert for Shutter Island and not for The cabinet of Dr. Caligari?? 😭😭😭😭
@jennawelch29282 жыл бұрын
Y’all fuckin with my brain!!! Lol 😂
@fairuzianatakusuma98922 жыл бұрын
I think Hannah Baker in 13 reasons why is also an unreliable narrator. There’s one scene she said in the tape that the Asian guy threw away her notes (which trampled her heart), but from the Asian guy narratives, he actually kept the notes and wasn’t the person she describe him to be. And she kept making bad decision thoroughout the series, it was painful.