narrator

And yet, still, it swings and it moves, because the narrator is also moving forward: “It was so long ago,” she sings.

The narrator watches a slave owner beat and hang a Black man who stole a pencil so that James could write something.

"I feel like, when our motivations are invisible, even to ourselves, all of us are unreliable narrators," he said.

The film’s narrator quotes the late Mike Davis, a noted historian and urbanist, when he says that Hollywood “takes a special pleasure in destroying Los Angeles — a guilty pleasure shared by most of its audience.”

Camille is an interesting narrator in part because she’s what some might derogatorily call a “passive” character, but whom I read instead as intensely observant and watchful.