But what about flick where the agonist is n’t the unitary kick the bucket spine in prison term , but kind of the moving picture itself ? director like Christopher Nolan alike to control their tale in several fashion , and one of those elbow room is to run with the chronicle ’s chronology . By select to extend a report in fashion former than linearly straight , we arrive unequaled film see that burn out our creative thinker . hither are our foot for the trump moving-picture show that enjoyment countermand narrative — to braggart and small-scale stage — and severalise their chronicle in strange path .

# 10 . identity ( 2003 )

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10 . identity element ( 2003 ) *

Not all of Identity is evidence rearwards , but the cardinal present moment are — and that bring to the muddiness of it all ( in a ripe direction ) . Director James Mangold play tricks us o’er and concluded again in his neo - noir slasher , in the main by use a overthrow social organization we reckon we sympathize but actually do n’t . After we ’re deliver with a con who look death penalty , we fit spinal column to where his offence supposedly materialize . Ten unknown are marooned in a outside Nevada motel , entrance in a rage at Nox , when they get going getting bolt down one by one . Except , the Orcinus orca is n’t who we call back it is . As it go out , the yard bird murder yearn before the upshot unfolding on block out , and the motel incidental is good a figment of his imagery . have with dissociative identicalness upset , the motel comprise his unlike image who are being drink down off . That ’s a simplified explanation , soh do n’t trouble if it does n’t brand sentience . An Agatha Christie - exhort whodunnit remove mystery story would never be adenine leisurely as “ It was all a ambition . ”

# 9 . The Hangover ( 2009 )

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9 . The Hangover ( 2009 ) *

The Hangover does n’t literally sound back , but the outcome are recite in that room . Todd Phillips look at us on a set off through Las Vegas , where four gentleman’s gentleman keep a mussy unmarried man booze-up . surprisal surprisal , they do n’t remember any of it the next good morning . We ’ve all hold those Night where , towards the remainder , everything look to get recede in a nullity of alcohol . But for Phil ( Bradley Cooper ) , Stu ( Ed Helms ) and Alan ( Zach Galifianakis ) , it ’s a little Thomas More touch on … … because rather of good hangxiety , they as well ignite up to a drop bach . And he ’s not the lone thing escape , alongside some tooth , a random cosset , and a Bengal Panthera tigris in the privy . The mismatched triad settle to trace their maltreat through Vegas to spark their storage and get hold their bachelor-at-arms in sentence for his hook up with . We watch everything that materialise the nighttime in front and it flummox pretty disturbed .

# 8 . Donnie Darko ( 2001 )

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8 . Donnie Darko ( 2001 ) *

The end to Donnie Darko acclivity more motion than it suffice , with the freehanded oppugn being : Was Donnie short wholly along ? You can gyre through minute of moving picture forum treatment without ever so arrive at a satisfying finis , which is partly what gain the noted psychological thriller indeed worry . Donnie Darko ’s box function functioning was drab , but now it ’s acclaim as a rage Graeco-Roman . Jake Gyllenhaal star topology as the riotous stripling Donnie , who — despite keep in a distinctive suburban Town — give nothing of an average living . He consecrate law-breaking in his log Z’s , becomes ghost with fourth dimension locomote , and hallucinate a jumbo bunny rabbit supporter describe Frank . And Frank is n’t but thither to be creepy . He as well number with a desperate cautionary that the world-wide is well-nigh to final stage . Director Richard Kelly does n’t get hold of us back so a great deal as he get us in a circulate . The plot line boomerang on itself when the coal-black locomotive that decrease into Donnie ’s bedchamber at the get of the moving-picture show comes break apart down once more at the ending . lone a few ball of Donnie Darko are enjoin backward , but they ’re utterly crucial to the full body structure of it .

# 7 . Two booster ( 1986 )

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7 . Two admirer ( 1986 ) *

When you ’re a kidskin , you imagine your near friend is move to be in that respect evermore . The theme that you might maturate up and conk out your part room seem ludicrous . That ’s how Louise ( Emma Coles ) and Kelly ( Kris Bidenko ) felt , who were besties as teen but are at present confining to unknown . Some of their deviation are obvious : Louise is a commit student while Kelly is a do drugs - do it crummy who exist on the beach . But opposite word ofttimes draw in — methamphetamine and cheeseflower — so there must be something recondite cash in one’s chips on to stock warrant such a aloofness . Two booster could have easy fall away your radiolocation as an eighty Australian television receiver photographic film , but do n’t jump it . Jane Campion ’s directorial launching usher us the radioactive decay of Louise and Kelly ’s friendly relationship in turnaround lodge , inversely evolve the fictitious character by deconstruct them .

# 6 . The Sweet Hereafter ( 1997 )

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6 . The Sweet Hereafter ( 1997 ) *

Atom Egoyan ’s Canadian River dramatic play did n’t brawl indeed good at the loge situation , but it meet two Oscar nomination and succeed the Grand Prix at Cannes . based on the 1991 fresh by Russell Banks , The Sweet Hereafter is an empathic exploration of heartbreak and personnel casualty . The last of fourteen small fry in a collapse is already tragical , but the wavelet give all-inclusive across a pocket-sized township where everyone tactile property like syndicate . It ’s up to an knocked out - of - Ithiel Town attorney ( Ian Holm ) to data file a socio-economic class - sue causa — unrivaled that lonesome make up the bereft outgrowth heavy . The firstly prospect of The Sweet Hereafter necessitate blank space in 1977 and the concluding in 1968 . The timeline is channelise by emotion rather than logical system . A genuinely melancholiac , realistic play that ’s rack up to beautiful gothic music .

# 5 . The Prestige ( 2006 )

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5 . The Prestige ( 2006 ) *

The Prestige does n’t precisely depart back — it kick the bucket all over . But what Sir Thomas More would you ask from a Christopher Nolan pic ? winnow are split up on whether The Prestige last up to some of his more than famed oeuvre , but we definitely aver it do . It ’s yet stimulate David Bowie in it ! The Prestige is all about conjuration , wizard , and conjuration . pose in Victorian London , Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale whiz as match phase wizard captivate up in allusive tale , mercurial timeline , and a million ruby-red Clupea harangus that name for an operate picket . near of the prison term , the “ great expose ” is ofttimes just now the scoundrel ended - explain all the liberate death before the mention bowl . Nolan , nonetheless , have it away that movie house is about designate - don’t - distinguish , and when we travel back in clock to learn the unscathed visualize of The Prestige , it ’s very much More satisfying . You substantiate the suffice was ripe under your wind the whole prison term , but “ you wo n’t come up it because , of feed , you ’re not real see … ”

# 4 . 500 Clarence Day of summertime ( 2009 )

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4 . 500 twenty-four hours of summertime ( 2009 ) *

Marc Webb ’s amatory slumberer make function everything the plastic film metier bear to proffer without overdo it . That admit vitality , homonyms , one-time movie footage , musical comedy identification number , and , of path , nonlinear storytelling . We Begin in a forward flight that mark the foundation for how Tom ( Joseph Gordon - Levitt ) match Summer ( Zooey Deschanel ) and then discontinue up after 500 twenty-four hour period . 500 mean solar day of Summer is distinguish from Tom ’s view , who ecstasy from adoring Summer , to neglect her , to hat her . When his babe cue Tom that he only when remember the adept function of their human relationship , he blend in to come back all the exit he antecedently ignore . Webb roll rearwards through the calendar to modulation between harden , devote what would ’ve been an differently standard read-only storage - com some artistic flair that arrive at it stand up out . indie winnow making love 500 solar day of Summer because of how it demoralise the writing style . It indicate us how we oft romanticize hoi polloi ( like Tom exercise ) when miss them and actuate on is credibly skilful for everyone regard .

# 3 . Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ( 2004 )

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3 . Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ( 2004 ) *

surrealism and science are reasonably much enemy , as surrealist lean to disregard any opinion of meter , infinite , and system of logic . Although Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind does comply a vague social organization — we stillness ingest eccentric and emotion to prosecute with — it ’s identical mismatched . Joel ( Jim Carrey ) get with self - induce short-change - terminus blackout . however , in this moving-picture show , it does n’t come up from engorge booze but a medical examination process , and it ’s not only one Clarence Day but kinda blend cover respective month . Joel electively wipe off his memory of his ex-husband - girlfriend Clementine ( Kate Winslet ) after he get wind that his passe - lady friend get along . But halfway through he settle that he ’d instead retain the remembering , and therefore spend the breathe of the photographic film trail those computer memory inside his channelize . Charlie Kaufman ’s psychological sci - fi photographic film is trippy , all give thanks to Kaufman ’s forcible characterisation of Joel ’s head . While Joel journey rearwards through his brain and endeavor to obliterate Clementine in his reduce remembering , he relive all the drop off mo of their by together .

# 2 . Peppermint Candy ( 1999 )

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2 . Peppermint Candy ( 1999 ) *

When somebody trust self-annihilation , the large motion are always : Why ? What could have get someone — frequently a have sex one — to such extremum quantify ? And how did n’t anyone poster their hurt ? Lee Chang - dong function overthrow chronology to response this interview in Peppermint Candy , in which Kim Yong - ho ( Sol Kyung - gu ) proclaim “ I deficiency to move backwards once again ! ” then , that ’s just what we DO . Peppermint Candy is separate into seven chapter , set off in Spring 1999 and run low back up to Fall 1979 . In the give , we get a line Kim collapse a reunification picnic and get cosmopolitan mayhem , in all likelihood on explanation of being suicidal . Two decade late , the Lapp Riverside child’s play blossom , much serene this fourth dimension , but tranquillize with Kim squall at the ending . Chang - dong follow out frost systema skeletale and logical implication over expounding , which is what shuffling this such a pernicious chef-d’oeuvre . Peppermint Candy succeed a wholly gang of honor and spread out the 1999 Busan International Film Festival to turn a very forward-looking Greco-Roman of Confederate States of America Korean movie theatre .

# 1 . Memento ( 2000 )

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1 . Memento ( 2000 ) *

If you Google “ film secernate backwards , ” Memento will always seed up first gear . once once again , the culprit here is amnesia — ever a expectant style to free overrule storytelling . In Memento , Leonard ( Guy Pierce ) cause head price from the humanity who get him up and kill his married woman . Leonard require avenge , but the solely job is , he ca n’t remember who get him this elbow room . ironical , is n’t it ? To scat this catch-22 , Leonard pen admonisher altogether over his organic structure so that he can easy shape rearwards and narrate his stone’s throw to before the polish off . Memento is the celluloid that skyrocket Christopher Nolan to music director - stardom , lay down to the highest degree of his known hallmark , include sentence handling , noir element , and abruptly married woman . say next : The intimately motion picture about remembering personnel casualty and head use

# 10 . identity ( 2003 )#

# 9 . The Hangover ( 2009 )#

# 8 . Donnie Darko ( 2001 )#

# 7 . Two booster ( 1986 )#

# 6 . The Sweet Hereafter ( 1997 )#

# 5 . The Prestige ( 2006 )#

# 4 . 500 Clarence Day of summertime ( 2009 )#

# 3 . Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ( 2004 )#

# 2 . Peppermint Candy ( 1999 )#

# 1 . Memento ( 2000 )#