The UNRELIABLE NARRATOR:

The UNRELIABLE NARRATOR:

Who is the reliable narrator? Sid tells the story. To me, Chip is the one who betrays his friend, publicly, cruelly, in the documentary. In their younger days, Sid recalls Chip stealing from his own family members. In their Berlin and Paris days, Chip plays the Iago, teasing Sid about the woman he loves and her concern for Hiero. Sid seems believable where it concerns memory, plot, what happened, but he is less strong, unreliable, when it comes to interpreting his own and others' feelings. "Trust the tale, but not the teller." He is immature and insecure, and seems only to come of age in his eighties when he finally sees Hiero again. What Sid did to Hiero, withholding the papers, was morally wrong, a lie of omission which, if he had told Hiero that the papers had arrived, would have allowed Hiero to make his own informed life or death decision about when to flee Paris. Sid chose to put their art, the possibility of musical immortality, ahead of his friend's safety.