Nonlinear narrative, disjointed narrative, or disrupted narrative is a narrative technique where events are portrayed, for example, out of chronological...

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Garfield and Florence Pugh) over the course of a decade. The film uses nonlinear narrative. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on...

The game uses a split, nonlinear narrative. The game received positive reception from video game critics for its narrative and visual style. Mouthwashing...

Inland Empire is a 2006 experimental psychological thriller film written, directed, and produced by David Lynch. Released with the tagline "A Woman in...

the order in which they occurred. Nonlinear narrative, disjointed narrative, or disrupted narrative, is a narrative technique where events are portrayed...

Animal is a 2023 Indian Hindi-language action drama film co-written, directed and edited by Sandeep Reddy Vanga and produced by T-Series Films, Bhadrakali...

giving the impression of a nonlinear gameplay through the use of nonlinear narrative, without the use of interactive narratives. This is typically used in...

It Ends with Us is a 2024 American romantic drama film directed by Justin Baldoni from a screenplay by Christy Hall, based on the 2016 novel by Colleen...

Breaking Bad is an American crime drama television series created and produced by Vince Gilligan for AMC. Set and filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the...

ending to the project and filming new material. The resulting surrealist narrative has left the film's events open to interpretation. Lynch declined to offer...

Challengers is a 2024 American romantic sports drama film directed by Luca Guadagnino and written by Justin Kuritzkes. It follows the love triangle between...

The Night Agent is an American action thriller television series created by Shawn Ryan based on the novel of the same name by Matthew Quirk. Starring Gabriel...

Jack Nance, and Richard Pryor in their final film performances. The narrative follows a musician (Pullman) who begins receiving unmarked videotapes...

Yellowjackets is an American thriller drama television series created by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson. The story follows a group of teenagers involved...

Silo is an American science fiction dystopian drama television series created by Graham Yost, based on the Silo trilogy of novels (Wool, Shift, and Dust)...

The Braid (French: La Tresse) is a 2023 melodramatic film directed by Laetitia Colombani based on her 2017 novel of the same name. Filming began on 11...

first screenplay written by Nolan in the first person, as he wanted the narrative to be conveyed from Oppenheimer's perspective. He described the "texture"...

hit song they assume everyone's sick of by now"; overall, he said the narrative approach was "like a mistake, serving mostly to delay and interrupt the...

Forrest Gump is a 1994 American comedy-drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis. An adaptation of the 1986 novel by Winston Groom, the screenplay of the...

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, or simply Wake Up Dead Man, is an upcoming American mystery film written and directed by Rian Johnson. It is a...

Atonement is a 2007 romantic war drama film directed by Joe Wright and starring James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, Saoirse Ronan, Romola Garai, and Vanessa...

Jawan (/dʒəwɑːn/ transl. Soldier) is a 2023 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film co-written and directed by Atlee in his Hindi film debut. It is...

The Usual Suspects is a 1995 American crime thriller film directed by Bryan Singer and written by Christopher McQuarrie. It stars Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel...

The Two Popes is a 2019 biographical drama film directed by Fernando Meirelles and written by Anthony McCarten, adapted from McCarten's play The Pope which...

Foundation is an American science fiction television series created by David S. Goyer and Josh Friedman for Apple TV+, loosely based on the Foundation...

In any narrative, a foil is a character who contrasts with another character, typically, a character who contrasts with the protagonist, in order to better...

A frame story (also known as a frame tale, frame narrative, sandwich narrative, or intercalation) is a literary technique that serves as a companion piece...

FlashForward was heavily compared to Lost, because of its similar use of nonlinear narrative and mysteries. The NBC series Heroes drew comparisons to Lost during...

centered on the Franco-British forces in place of the typical heroic narrative of victorious Americans. Nolan postponed Dunkirk until he had acquired...