10 Most Unreliable Movie Narrators Of All Time

In Duncan Jones’s Moon, Sam Bell is a man nearing the end of a three year work contract on a Moon-based mining facility. He expects to see his wife and child soon, with whom he can only communicate via the occasional recorded message.

But what he doesn’t know is that his three year contract is actually a three year lifespan. Upon meeting his exact body double, Bell realises that he is just another clone of the original astronaut Sam Bell, and that Lunar Industries is using cheap clone labour as a way of saving money.

The unreliability comes in through Bell’s conversations with his wife. He (and the viewer) assumes that she is sending him new messages over the course of three years, when he is actually being sent old recordings from the original Sam’s time on the station. His daughter – who Sam thinks to be an infant – actually died several years ago, Bell learns upon calling his original’s wife.

All this time, we were under the assumption that Sam was a unique man with a family and a life to return to, and so was he. That couldn’t have been further from the truth, however.