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* Briony from ''Film/{{Atonement}}'' lied about Cecilia and Robbie ending up together. They both died in 1940 during the early stages of World War II. Briony wanted to give them the happy ending they should have had, if not for her.
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* PlayedForLaughs in ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons.'' Bowler Hat Guy (aka [[spoiler:Lewis' roommate Goob]]) tells his StartOfDarkness, which he blames on Lewis; however, tying in with [[AnAesop the movie's main theme]], it's really a matter of BHG refusing to let a relatively minor incident go, even after many years. Part of the flashback includes a scene of young BHG walking down the hall at school, angrily ignoring everyone else:

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* PlayedForLaughs in ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons.'' Bowler Hat Guy (aka [[spoiler:Lewis' roommate Goob]]) tells his StartOfDarkness, which he blames on Lewis; however, tying in with [[AnAesop the movie's main theme]], theme, it's really a matter of BHG refusing to let a relatively minor incident go, even after many years. Part of the flashback includes a scene of young BHG walking down the hall at school, angrily ignoring everyone else:
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* ''Film/{{Unforgiven}}'': The event that kicks off the plot is a cowboy [[DisproportionateRetribution cutting up a prostitute's face with a knife because she giggled at]] [[TeenyWeenie his pecker]]. She gets some gnarly facial scarring and psychological trauma out of the ordeal, but she is otherwise physically whole. When the Schofield Kid tells Munny about the attack, he adds that the girl's [[EyeScream eyes were cut out]] as well (not true). When Munny later tells Ned about the attack, he adds that her breasts were also cut and a [[{{Fingore}} finger was severed]] (again, not true). [[spoiler:Later when the Schofield Kid fatally shoots Mike in the outhouse, he explains that Mike was going for the gun on his belt... the gun belt which in reality was hanging up on the door and well out of Mike's reach (but he ''was'' reaching out... to the Kid, [[AintTooProudToBeg he was pleading to the Kid to not shoot him]]).]] It's strongly implied that these Chinese whispers that are retold and exaggerated multiple times are the basis for many old western legends, while the actual truth behind these events becomes obscured and forgotten (if there is any truth in them to begin with).
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* The eponymous Kane from ''Film/CitizenKane'' left behind a journall which gives the broad strokes of his life. To him, his rise and fall was just a case of too much, too fast. It's up to the people he left behind to explain the details he had left out.

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* The eponymous Kane from ''Film/CitizenKane'' left behind a journall journal which gives the broad strokes of his life. To him, his rise and fall was just a case of too much, too fast. It's up to the people he left behind to explain the details he had left out.
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* The eponymous Kane from ''Film/CitizenKane'' left behind a journal left behind a journal which gives the broad strokes of his life. To him, his rise and fall was just a case of too much, too fast. It's up to the people he left behind to explain the details he had left out.

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* The eponymous Kane from ''Film/CitizenKane'' left behind a journal left behind a journal journall which gives the broad strokes of his life. To him, his rise and fall was just a case of too much, too fast. It's up to the people he left behind to explain the details he had left out.
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* Cady from ''Film/MeanGirls'' portrays herself as a reluctant bystander up until she lies about Regina dying after getting hit by a bus. Once that happens, she is revealed to be a consummate liar. Everything that has happened in the movie is the way she wants the viewers to see it. By the end, she lies about the "new plastics" also getting hit by a bus thus showing that she can still manipulate the story despite pulling a HeelFaceTurn.
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* Brushy Bill from ''Film/YoungGunsII'' claims to be the real Billy the Kid. His story clashes with historical facts. He also never explains how he escaped his final showdown with Pat Garrett.
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* In ''Film/VampireDiary'', everything known about vampires comes from Vicki, and there is no way of knowing if any of it is true, or just an elaborate delusion on her part. Towards the end, she even claims that what she has said cannot be true, but this may have just been her attempting to persuade Holly to save herself.
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* ''Film/{{Neruda}}'' is about famous Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, specifically focusing on how for about a year Neruda dodged attempts to hunt him down after the Communist party was proscribed in Chile and eventually managed to escape through the Andes mountains to go into exile. The ending shows that Neruda has been telling this story while in exile, and it implies that Neruda either dramatized or outright made up some of the events (especially concerning the police agent in charge of the effort to hunt him down), in order to bring greater attention to the political turmoil within Chile. For an extra touch of the surreal, there are times during his telling when some of the characters he is talking about seem to have a degree of awareness that they're characters within a story that Neruda is telling.

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* ''Film/{{Neruda}}'' is about famous Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, specifically focusing on how for about a year Neruda dodged attempts to hunt him down after the Communist party was proscribed in Chile and eventually managed to escape through the Andes mountains to go into exile. The ending shows that Neruda has been telling this story while in exile, and it implies that Neruda either dramatized or outright made up some of the events (especially concerning the police agent in charge of the effort to hunt him down), in order to bring greater attention to the political turmoil within Chile. For an extra touch of the surreal, there are times during his telling when some of the characters he is talking about seem to have a degree of awareness that they're characters within a story fictionalized version of events that Neruda is telling.recounting.
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* ''Film/{{Neruda}}'' is about famous Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, specifically focusing on how for about a year Neruda dodged attempts to hunt him down after the Communist party was proscribed in Chile and eventually managed to escape through the Andes mountains to go into exile. The ending shows that Neruda has been telling this story while in exile, and it implies that Neruda either dramatized or outright made up some of the events (especially concerning the police agent in charge of the effort to hunt him down), in order to bring greater attention to the political turmoil within Chile. For an extra touch of the surreal, there are times during his telling when some of the characters he is talking about seem to have a degree of awareness that they're characters within a story that Neruda is telling.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Mei spins her introduction to make herself look in complete control of her life but 5 minutes in is forced to admit her mother controls much of what she does.
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* The killer in ''Film/DeadlyDetention'' states that his actions are a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against the students for [bullying his daughter until she [[DrivenToSuicide committed suicide]]. The FinalGirl however, states that she and the others were actually quite friendly with her, and that the killer may have been an AbusiveParent.

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* The killer in ''Film/DeadlyDetention'' states that his actions are a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against the students for [bullying bullying his daughter until she [[DrivenToSuicide committed suicide]]. The FinalGirl however, states that she and the others were actually quite friendly with her, and that the killer may have been an AbusiveParent.

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