10 Genius Movie Moments When Unreliable Narrators Changed EVERYTHING
1. Amy's Diary Entries Were A Lie - Gone Girl
While many of the narrations on this list came in terms of the way the story was told and from certain characters' points of view, Gone Girl is a little more literal. Amy Dunne (Rosamund Pike) literally narrates much of the story through her diary entries, something that the police pick up and refer to after she goes missing.
As is often the case, the husband instantly became a person of interest in the disappearance of Amy, and though Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) was actually innocent in this one aspect, the diary entries told a very different story.
They began with the whirlwind of their initial romance and honeymoon period, then delved deeper into the territories of marital problems, arguments, abuse, and Amy's fear for her safety. Around halfway through the movie however, Amy's narration reveals that the entire diary was fabricated from start to finish, in order to make Nick look dangerous and capable of killing her.
She purposefully crafted the pages, at least 300 entries, in a way to paint Nick as guilty as payback for being a lying cheater, and a poor husband in general. Amy was never kidnapped, she was never murdered, she just devised her own story through the means of the diary to punish her unfaithful husband.