Main Character test in reverse

[Prish]

@pattyloof

This brought to mind The Usual Suspects.

And brings to mind its opposite, Memento, where the MC has things hidden, but he shares them with the audience as he re-discovers them.

[Prish]

@MWollaeger

This also makes me wonder – when narrators are unreliable, which thread are they unreliable about?

I wonder if there is some MC tradeoff going on, sometimes.

[pattyloof]

@Prish

I wonder if there is some MC tradeoff going on, sometimes.

It’s almost meta with a deliberately lying narrator, because they’d have no reason to lie if they weren’t aware someone was listening … so they’re in that sense breaking the fourth wall when they do so.

[MWollaeger]

@pattyloof

…because they’d have no reason to lie if they weren’t aware someone was listening

Nah, I lie to myself all the time. But I have a reason, usually. I want to eat that cake I’m not supposed to.