In another (watch it below), which is even more perplexing, McDonald's reverses the narrative, by detailing each and every ingredient that goes into its french fries.
But Roth's perplexing determination to vulgarise his narrative strips The Humbling of its own power: where he seeks to be nuanced, he too frequently appears trite; where he attempts to be brazen, he comes across as pointlessly crude.
The influence of this poltergeist in the narrative is all the more perplexing when one knows that the story was first published as a memoir, under the slightly different title "Someone to Disturb", in the London Review of Books.
Six contemporary artists from Philadelphia gather to focus on a series of perplexing images, questioning their meaning in the larger narrative of history.
The story of their religious conversion, the denial of their roots and a love fired by piety is in turn wondrous and perplexing, and its impact on young Stephen drove the narrative and inspired long stretches of eloquent and affecting prose.
It's possible the "Get on Up" team thought this narrative chaos was a way to convey how perplexing and confounding a personality Brown was, a self-created individual who maneuvered his way from dire poverty to enormous success but ended up being serially abusive to individuals, whether they be band members or the women in his life, who didn't live up to his own exacting standards.
Jason Lipshut of Billboard found the "narrative arc" for the video to be "a bit perplexing".
It offered several perplexing thoughts: that we had become so caught up in the dark narrative of her songs – the blighted love, the drugs, the chaos, the notion of the mercurial genius – that when her demise became ever more brazen and distressing, we saw Winehouse not as an individual but as the butt of chat-show jokes and YouTube footage.
This is as far as a filmmaker can go before narrative folds and crumples in his hands, which accounts, perhaps, for the movie's perplexing strain of sadness, with Vlady craving only, as she says, "to catch a fleeting reason to be alive".
Considering that Cervantes presented his "Don Quixote" as the translation of a chronicle of true events written by one Cide Hamete Benengeli, this doesn't strike me as particularly perplexing, unless she's waiting for enlightenment about why J. M. Coetzee decided to make Cervantes's narrative device the truth in the world of this book.
