 The fantasy tale bleeds back into and comments on the film's "present-tense" story.There are often incongruities based on the fact that the stuntman is an American and the girl Persian—the stuntman's voiceover refers to "Indians," “a squaw” and “a teepee,” but the visuals show a Bollywood-style devi and a Taj Mahal-like castle.The same conceit of an unreliable narrator was used to very different effect in the 1995 crime drama "The Usual Suspects" (which garnered an Oscar for Kevin Spacey's performance).