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drupoxy t1_jeahbsf wrote

Reply to I See You - "repeat" scenes by Nerdy_Drewette

People are saying Rashomon, but I don't think that's what you're describing. Rashomon shows multiple narratives around an event, which is to say that it's not the same scene, it's a set of different stories around the same past event.

As far as other examples of what you're describing, it kind of sounds like a classic one is in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. We see a set of scenes partway through the film and then again toward the end in a way that recontextualizes them. In fact, the HP movies love this, with Snape's actions in the first movie being a good example.

It's a common horror tactic as well, with some of the Nightmare on Elm Street contrasting what a person perceives with how others see them responding. Saint Maud has a great example of this at the end as well. Though this technique, in which the same scene is shown from massively different (some of them very distorted) perspectives might be pushing the meaning of the post a bit far as well.

The last example I can think of is Inland Empire, in which the scenes of the movie kind of fold in on themselves as it progresses. It's hard to explain, but it basically sets up a number of ontological layers (the film, the film within the film, the film that the film within a film is based on, the person in the film watching the film in a theater, etc.) and connects them in various ways such that you see something that happened at one point of the movie from a very different perspective later.

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yognautilus t1_jeah24w wrote

Reply to 5 centimeters per second by Fan387

This movie brought me down hard when I saw it in college. The scene at the end where the two characters, who once deeply loved each other, passed each other on the street and didn't even recognize each other just filled me with sadness that you could be that immemorable, even to a previous flame. And then that song. Man. Every time I listen to One More Time, One More Chance, I instinctively feel sad.

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FatherMellow t1_jeagln3 wrote

Reply to Which movies do you want to like but find it hard to do so? by EngineeringOk3975

Snyder's DC Movies. I love DC but his movies and especially his fans just get worse the longer they go on. Getting told "yOu jUsT dOnT gEt hIs mOvIeS mAn, sNyDeR jUsT rEaLlY 'gEtS' tHe cHaRaCtErs mAn."

😒 Pffffff, okay suuure.... No he doesn't and the movies are mediocre at best. (Go ahead and downvote me snyder fanboys, doesn't make it less true.)

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InvestigatorTimely52 t1_jeafpw4 wrote

Reply to How can you tell that a movie is pretentious? by Chemical-Contest-150

It's now basically a generic word that gets thrown around by many who have nothing substantial to say or proper analysis.

I've heard some filmmakers recently go like 'This may sound pretentious' and it makes me realize that for some it does feel like a major putdown.

But I like how some who hear it often haven't let it affect their way. The likes of Charlie Kaufman, Innaritu, Ceylan, Cuaron and James Gray still stuck to their style.

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