Sentence examples for backwards narrative from inspiring English sources

As we know from his ingenious backwards narrative Memento, Nolan has a genius for logistics.

More than twenty years after the backwards narrative of Time's Arrow (shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1991) comes The Zone of Interest.

Berardinelli praised the film's backwards narrative, saying that "what really distinguishes this film is its brilliant, innovative structure", and noted that Guy Pearce gives an "astounding...tight, and thoroughly convincing performance".

I'm not thinking of backwards narratives such as Memento, nor about Roman Polanski's vicious circles or Moebius-strip stories such as Dead of Night or La Jetée.

Perhaps it is a journalistic impulse to ensure veracity, historical context and authenticity rather than the freer inclinations of a novelist or memoirist, who would almost certainly have put things in chronological order rather than employing this stuttering, backwards and forwards narrative.

He knows their narrative backwards and forwards but remains detached even as he embodies it.

Exactly what he's trying to do is never entirely clear; partly because, since the first Terminator film back in 1984, the convoluted backwards-and-forwards narrative superstructure has become ever more clotted and confused.

Time, in his stories, is never likely to go backwards, nor will his narrative voice ever lose its compelling simplicity of style.

The narrative shifts backwards and forwards in time to bring out foreshadowings of the disaster being prepared by fate for the unwitting playwright.

Most narratives that run backwards do so in substantial sections of forward narrative.

Narratives run backwards, and the women's lives have a leaping illogicality, combined with a lurching gulf between language and meaning like the Cranfordism about spelling and teeth that anticipates Alice in Wonderland.