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== Film ==
* One of the most striking uses of the unreliable voiceover is in Terence Malik's ''[[
* The naive Forrest in ''[[Forrest Gump]]'' plays this trope straight. Played for humor (and sometimes for drama), you'll see Forrest describing the upstart Apple Computers as a fruit company; Charlie, the codename for the Vietcong, as some guy the Army was looking for; and in one scene, he describes Jenny's father as a "loving man, always kissing and touching his daughters." The line pretty much sums up the real truth of Jenny's situation.
* Don's narrative on how he became a Hollywood star in ''[[Singin' in the Rain|Singin in The Rain]]''. His words paint his journey as a smooth, refined and comfortable one. The series of flashbacks that accompanies them show that it was actually an arduous and often undignified struggle to the top.
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* ''[[Beowulf (film)|Beowulf]]'': Beowulf claims a bunch of sea monsters attacked him during the race with Breca. We ''do'' see him fighting said sea monsters, but when he claims another sea monster dragged him down under the water, it's actually a beautiful mermaid that he ends up "plunging his blade into."
* [[The Usual Suspects]] primarily uses [[Unreliable Narrator]], but the flashbacks are ''slightly'' closer to reality than the narration. Eg, his story involves a man named "Kobayashi", but the flashbacks show an obviously non-Japanese man in that role.
* In the film ''[[Walker]]'', which details the 1856 conquest of Nicaragua by an American soldier sponsored by a cadre of [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|industrialists]] (most prominent of whom is Cornelius Vanderbilt), the protagonist's narrations—which sound a lot like quotes from an official log or report—are blatantly contradicted by the action of the scenes they introduce.
* [[Played for Laughs]] in ''[[Meet the Robinsons]]''. When Bowler Hat Guy is [[Mr. Exposition|ranting to a captured Lewis]] about [[Motive Rant|why he has a grudge against him]], he says several things that flatly contradicts what is seen on the screen. For instance, he claims that everybody at school hated him after we see a couple of kids being friendly to him and inviting him to hang out, and that he and the evil robotic hat Doris retreated to their "[[Supervillain Lair|villainous lair]]" to make their [[Evil Plan]] - while the actual footage shows them going to an [[Sugar Bowl|adorable]] [[Crowning Moment of Funny|kiddy restaurant]].
* In the film ''[[One True Thing]]'' the main character, Ellen, is shown discussing her mother's death with a detective. Her voice-over narration seems at first to match up with what is shown on the screen, but as the film progresses it becomes clear that she is not giving the detective the full story, and has glossed over her family's problems.
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