The narrator of the film American Beauty, who comes right out and tells us that we're going to see him die at some point.See also Dead All Along, Dead to Begin With, Epilogue Letter. After their character of choice murders the protagonist (usually a slightly veiled Author Avatar), the protagonist comments on and narrates their death for a few lines afterwards, which comes off as a bit uninspired considering the amount of stories which essentially end in the exact same way.īeing a death trope and all, there are going to be unmarked spoilers below. In some forms of media, this trope is well on its way to reaching the status of an Undead Horse Trope - for example, a sizeable portion of Creepypastas of the "Lost Episode" and Video Game categories tend to end in this way. It might result from Near-Death Clairvoyance, Life Flashing Before Your Eyes, or even a Dying Dream (which raises the possibility that they're also an Unreliable Narrator). They're just a very talkative voice that happens to belong to a character who doesn't survive the movie. There's no explanation given for why or how this character can tell the story in question, or whom they're telling it to we don't see them as a ghost, or as a character writing or speaking their last words. Occasionally, in watching a show or film that features a narration in voice over, you find that the narration is not because the writers got too lazy to show what's happening, but because they want to present you with the odd phenomenon of a deceased character telling you the story. Brás Cubas, The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
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