Instead, he had a bigger puzzle-box narrative in mind, one that plays on the viewer's delusions as well as those of the characters.
With the nesting of jack-in-the-box narrative contraptions from which new characters, new possibilities, new perspectives leap up with imaginative audacity, Ott and Silver snatch fiction from the jaws of documentary and prove the power of freely creative manipulations to amplify the limits of constrained and constraining circumstances.
McCarthy saw all that and more in Tintin where he found "Molière style social comedy" and "Dumas-style adventure" with "Conradian boxed narratives" peppered with "Rabeleaisian obscenities".
In a box titled "Narrative," these fragments form a horrific tale.
Butler's description of one – "it's an extraordinary story rooted in how people believe what they want to believe and how that desire can be manipulated, and the filmmaking creates Chinese boxes of narrative around that" – could apply to most.
In Journeyman, a thoughtful and moving reversal of old boxing redemption narratives, Considine expands what we understand about the ferocity and willpower of the people who take part in the sport, giving his fighter a battle that any of us can get behind.
Over time, details accrete, through flashbacks and flashforwards, until we're faced with a dazzling puzzle box of a narrative, as much like a video game as a story.
Oh, just certain improvisations that went outside the box of the narrative.
I know that might not fit the narrative box about the rise of Bernie and the progressives.
Box 1 The narrative of addiction recovery desire Recovery desire I am wasting my time, you know.
For example, people didn't follow the survey format and provided responses in a manner different than we had expected (i.e., using narrative boxes to comment on multiple choice items).
