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Lunch~ There's a movie I like called Life Itself. It follows the stories of multiple people, but one of the themes that stood out to me was the Unreliable Narrator. "An unreliable narrator is a storyteller whose version of events cannot be fully trusted, either because they are biased, mistaken, or deliberately misleading. This can happen for many reasons—they might be emotionally affected, have memory issues, misunderstand situations, or even lie on purpose. Instead of presenting an objective truth, they shape the story through their own perspective, making the audience question what is real. A famous example is Fight Club, where the narrator is unaware of a major truth about himself, or Life Itself, where the main character’s grief and trauma distort his memories, making it unclear what really happened. Unreliable narrators make stories more engaging by encouraging the audience to think critically and uncover the truth for themselves." I've had many moments where I later heard a completely different version of an event—even though we experienced the same thing. More than once, I found myself cast as the villain in someone else's story. Other times, the opposite happened, but from my perspective, I was just a nosy, overbearing lady. I’m not perfect by any means, but it’s interesting to see how differently people perceive the same situation. It often makes me question my own reality—so much so that I repeatedly ask others for their perspective, trying to understand why their version of events is so different from mine. I was reflecting on past conversations (as I tend to do, thanks to anxiety) and remembered an incident involving two separate people. Last year, my tea ceremony teacher’s tea room burned down. She didn’t even realize it until a neighbor knocked on her door. When a friend told me about it, my first reaction was: That sucks. Was anyone hurt?
Published: March 10th 2025, 9:13:20 am
