Through the use of parallelism within the narrative of Unbreakable, the viewer comes to gain a greater understanding of the characters of David Dunn and Elijah Price, and what motivates them. This in turn allows the film to become more multifaceted and complex than if the narrative had simply focused on one character alone. Throughout the film there are two significant instances of parallelism. The first is the parallelism between Dunn and Price, which focuses …showed first 75 words of 2327 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2327 total…e movie. There is no mistake in the way the movie ends in such a surprising way; what we come to understand is that perhaps good and evil is not always so black and white as we first expected. What Unbreakable helps us to realise is that as long as one exists, so will the other, and is not always so easy to recognise these things for what they are until it is too late.