Genre Identification Test

“How You Know It's Auntrolye”

You do not identify Auntrolye by what it looks like, you identify it by how it behaves. 

It is a genre of function, not of form. If, as a viewer, you find yourself in a story that begins to dismantle its own logic, not to entertain or trick you, but because the character’s perception cannot maintain coherence, you may be inside Auntrolye.

Auntrolye reveals itself not through twist endings, but through the inner psyche. If, an emotion reaches a point where it cannot be cognitively managed by the character, the film itself may begin to shift: timelines fracture, locations loop, conversations warp mid-scene. This isn’t surrealism, it’s subjective identity rendered as cinematic architecture.

You’ll notice it not because something “weird” happens, but because something felt too powerful, even as it destabilized the world. A delayed sound doesn’t shock you, it disorients you, because it echoes from a place that no longer exists in the character’s linear sense of time. A flashback doesn’t clarify; it rewrites. A lie isn’t revealed, it is replaced by a stronger belief that turns into fact within the character’s reality.

The key to Auntrolye is not what happened, but why the character remembered it that way. If you find yourself interrogating memory as structure, not just theme, and navigating scenes where subjective belief is indistinguishable from truth, you’re not just watching a character, you’re trapped inside them.

Whilst Auntrolye can be shown in multiple forms, from its Subgenres to the Genre itself, what you are guaranteed to notice in all cases is how everything in the world is controlled by the inner mind of the character.

That is the identification test. Auntrolye doesn’t present itself, it absorbs you. The moment you stop asking “what’s going on?” and start asking “what internal law made this inevitable?”, you are watching Auntrolye.