narrative unreliability

His films like Memento and The Prestige deliberately construct narratives where viewers cannot trust their own perception of events, making unreliable narration central to the storytelling structure.

Gone Girl and Fight Club feature shocking narrative reversals that force audiences to reconsider everything they've been told, exploiting unreliable narrators to question truth itself.

Enemy and Prisoners create ambiguous psychological narratives where reality becomes subjective, leaving viewers uncertain about what actually happened versus what characters perceive.