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The essay is a response to the following prompt:
‘In Stories We Tell, Michael Polley is the most sympathetically portrayed character.’ Do you agree?
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Sarah Polley’s 2012 docu-memoir ‘Stories We Tell’ privileges the voice of Michael Polley as the non-diegetic narrator and in doing so, enables him to establish a strong rapport with the viewing audience. Notwithstanding, her unconventional approach to storytelling is reliant on the polyvocal contribution of the key witnesses to the life of her deceased mother Diane Polley, and as such, her siblings, along with her biological father Harry Gulkin are also able to articulate their perspectives in a way that is at times endearing. Forgiveness and redemption it seems becomes the resonant idea as Polley attempts to reform an image of her mother through her avant garde directorial style. In light of this, rather than isolating individual characters as more worthy of sympathy, the film becomes an appeal for understanding and forgiveness; a cathartic retrospective
