
#44 - Joker (2019)
Writers/Blockbusters Screenwriting Podcast
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The Unreliable Narrator
The Joker doesn't know what's real and what's not in the end when he's, we shouldn't talk theories. Like for instance, Fight Club with this movie, Tyler Derton, the narrator, Edward Norton's character, he doesn't know that he's unreliable. He's never lying to us. Patrick Bateman is never trying. We're never shown something that he doesn't believe is real. It's only the phone call at the end where we're like, Oh, was that not real? Right. The entire thing is a lie on purpose and we're meant to be deceived. So it's a completely different experience all around. I actually believed you. What you
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