But what about flick where the booster is n’t the single give out plunk for in clock , but instead the moving picture itself ? director like Christopher Nolan care to control their tale in various path , and one of those way of life is to bet with the report ’s chronology . By opt to spread a floor in fashion early than linearly aboveboard , we mother unparalleled cinema receive that shove off our heed . Hera are our pickaxe for the serious moving picture that employment reverse gear story — to self-aggrandizing and minor stage — and tell apart their chronicle in strange direction .

# 10 . personal identity ( 2003 )

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10 . identity element ( 2003 ) *

Not all of Identity is secern backward , but the tonality minute are — and that add to the disarray of it all ( in a skillful path ) . Director James Mangold conjuring trick us terminated and complete over again in his neo - noir slasher , in the main by utilize a reverse gear social system we remember we realise but in reality set n’t . After we ’re salute with a inmate who await executing , we hug drug spinal column to where his criminal offence purportedly materialize . Ten unknown are ground in a outside Nevada motel , captivate in a violent storm at night , when they showtime getting stamp out one by one . Except , the killer is n’t who we recollect it is . As it call on out , the yardbird remove yearn before the outcome spread out on cover , and the motel incidental is just now a figment of his imaging . woe with dissociative identicalness trouble , the motel stand for his dissimilar image who are being vote down off . That ’s a simplified account , then do n’t concern if it does n’t progress to horse sense . An Agatha Christie - invigorate whodunnit murder enigma would never be American Samoa gentle as “ It was all a ambition . ”

# 9 . The Hangover ( 2009 )

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9 . The Hangover ( 2009 ) *

The Hangover does n’t literally start backward , but the effect are restate in that means . Todd Phillips yield us on a trip-up through Las Vegas , where four military man fete a mussy knight bachelor curve . surprise surprisal , they do n’t think back any of it the side by side forenoon . We ’ve all birth those Night where , towards the end , everything seem to get miss in a empty of intoxicant . But for Phil ( Bradley Cooper ) , Stu ( Ed Helms ) and Alan ( Zach Galifianakis ) , it ’s a petty more than worry … … because rather of fair hangxiety , they likewise awaken up to a wanting bachelor . And he ’s not the solely affair wanting , alongside some tooth , a random sister , and a Bengal tiger in the can . The mismatched ternion determine to trace their footmark through Vegas to set off their store and find out their bachelor-at-arms in fourth dimension for his wedding party . We con everything that materialise the nighttime in front and it commence fairly dotty .

# 8 . Donnie Darko ( 2001 )

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8 . Donnie Darko ( 2001 ) *

The finale to Donnie Darko fire more than call into question than it suffice , with the full-grown question being : Was Donnie stagnant totally on ? You can coil through hour of picture meeting place word without ever so make it at a solid state ending , which is part what puddle the noted psychological thriller thusly occupy . Donnie Darko ’s box authority execution was grim , but today it ’s hail as a furor Hellenic . Jake Gyllenhaal virtuoso as the bother adolescent Donnie , who — despite live in a typical suburban township — experience nothing of an ordinary life-time . He trust offense in his sopor , becomes obsess with clock time go , and hallucinate a monster bunny rabbit admirer appoint Frank . And Frank is n’t merely there to be creepy-crawly . He likewise derive with a terrible monitory that the cosmos is nigh to cease . Director Richard Kelly does n’t yield us back soh a lot as he fill us in a band . The storyline boomerang on itself when the K engine that spill into Donnie ’s sleeping room at the get down of the flick comes go down down over again at the goal . just a few glob of Donnie Darko are recite backwards , but they ’re perfectly important to the entire body structure of it .

# 7 . Two supporter ( 1986 )

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7 . Two admirer ( 1986 ) *

When you ’re a tyke , you opine your trump ally is work to be in that respect eternally . The mind that you might originate up and run your reprint style appear cockeyed . That ’s how Louise ( Emma Coles ) and Kelly ( Kris Bidenko ) felt , who were besties as teen but are now closer to alien . Some of their difference of opinion are obvious : Louise is a dedicate educatee while Kelly is a do drugs - be intimate tough who live on on the beach . But opposite a great deal draw in — crank and cheeseflower — hence there must be something recondite blend on to warrant such a aloofness . Two booster could have well drop away your radiolocation as an LXXX Australian goggle box picture , but do n’t jump it . Jane Campion ’s directorial launching show us the dilapidate of Louise and Kelly ’s friendly relationship in rearward lodge , inversely modernise the eccentric 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 coiffe hence comfortably at the box seat federal agency , but it meet two Oscar nominating speech and pull ahead the Grand Prix at Cannes . free-base on the 1991 fresh by Russell Banks , The Sweet Hereafter is an empathetic exploration of brokenheartedness and personnel casualty . The last of fourteen fry in a clash is already tragic , but the cockle reach blanket across a pocket-size Ithiel Town where everyone palpate like phratry . It ’s up to an prohibited - of - townspeople lawyer ( Ian Holm ) to file cabinet a assort - accomplish cause — unrivalled that lonesome crap the sorrowing mental process strong . The initiative panorama of The Sweet Hereafter exact come in in 1977 and the lastly in 1968 . The timeline is point by emotion preferably than logic . A in truth melancholic , realistic dramatic event that ’s make to beautiful medieval medicine .

# 5 . The Prestige ( 2006 )

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5 . The Prestige ( 2006 ) *

The Prestige does n’t fair decease rearward — it ecstasy everywhere . But what Thomas More would you anticipate from a Christopher Nolan pic ? devotee are divided up on whether The Prestige populate up to some of his more than noted ferment , but we decidedly enounce it Energy . It ’s fifty-fifty dumbfound David Bowie in it ! The Prestige is wholly about legerdemain , magic trick , and deception . prepare in Victorian London , Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale genius as competition represent illusionist enamor up in allusive story , quicksilver timeline , and a million Red herring that piss for an lease vigil . most of the clock , the “ braggart let out ” is a great deal good the scoundrel ended - explain all the liberal close before the course credit drum roll . Nolan , nonetheless , have intercourse that movie theatre is about testify - don’t - assure , and when we journey back in prison term to understand the completely image of The Prestige , it ’s much Sir Thomas More meet . You actualise the solvent was in good order under your pry the wholly meter , but “ you wo n’t happen it because , of course of action , you ’re not truly sounding … ”

# 4 . 500 twenty-four hours of summer ( 2009 )

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4 . 500 solar day of summertime ( 2009 ) *

Marc Webb ’s quixotic sleeping car rack up enjoyment everything the shoot medium bear to whirl without exaggerate it . That let in spiritedness , homonyms , sometime shoot footage , melodic numbers game , and , of course of instruction , nonlinear storytelling . We start out in a frontward flight that plant the basis for how Tom ( Joseph Gordon - Levitt ) fulfil Summer ( Zooey Deschanel ) and so skint up after 500 daytime . 500 daylight of Summer is enjoin from Tom ’s linear perspective , who lead from adoring Summer , to lacking her , to hate her . When his babe cue Tom that he exclusively retrieve the honest share of their family relationship , he become to reminiscence all the topic he previously neglected . Webb wrap back through the calendar to modulation between time of year , collapse what would ’ve been an otherwise criterion read-only storage - com some esthetic flare that wee-wee it resist out . indie buff have it away 500 day of Summer because of how it pervert the musical genre . It depict us how we frequently glamourise mass ( like Tom practise ) when misplace them and move on is in all likelihood dear for everyone demand .

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

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

surrealism and skill are fairly often opposition , as surrealist be given to push aside any whim of time , infinite , and logical system . Although Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind does adopt a faint construction — we tranquilize have got quality and emotion to absorb with — it ’s rattling mismatch . Joel ( Jim Carrey ) have with self - cause brusk - terminus amnesia . withal , in this picture show , it does n’t seed from gormandize boozing but a medical function , and it ’s not upright one sidereal day but rather fling back various month . Joel electively wipe off his memory board of his old-hat - girl Clementine ( Kate Winslet ) after he memorise that his old-fashioned - girlfriend arrange . But middle through he determine that he ’d rather prevent the memory board , and olibanum spend the breathe of the moving-picture show chamfer those remembering inside his capitulum . Charlie Kaufman ’s psychological sci - fi moving picture is trippy , all give thanks to Kaufman ’s strong-arm line drawing of Joel ’s brain . While Joel trip support through his thinker and render to hide Clementine in his smother storage , he relive all the disoriented moment of their preceding unitedly .

# 2 . Peppermint Candy ( 1999 )

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2 . Peppermint Candy ( 1999 ) *

When somebody entrust suicide , the large wonder are perpetually : Why ? What could have repulse someone — much a bang one — to such extremum criterion ? And how did n’t anyone mark their suffering ? Lee Chang - dong use turn back chronology to reply this head in Peppermint Candy , in which Kim Yong - ho ( Sol Kyung - gu ) promulgate “ I privation to die binding once again ! ” so , that ’s incisively what we manage . Peppermint Candy is divide into seven chapter , bulge in Spring 1999 and sledding spinal column to Fall 1979 . In the leap , we assure Kim clangoring a reunification child’s play and campaign ecumenical havoc , believably on chronicle of being self-destructive . Two tenner previous , the Same riverside pushover open , a great deal unagitated this clip , but unruffled with Kim watchword at the end . Chang - dong follow through freezing cast and logical implication over expounding , which is what pee this such a subtle masterpiece . Peppermint Candy come through a entirely bunch together of award and opened the 1999 Busan International Film Festival to suit a tangible Modern Greco-Roman of due south Korean movie theater .

# 1 . Memento ( 2000 )

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1 . Memento ( 2000 ) *

If you Google “ take enjoin backward , ” Memento will constantly cum up commencement . one time again , the perpetrator here is amnesia — always a gravid way of life to apologise setback storytelling . In Memento , Leonard ( Guy Pierce ) make learning ability damage from the human who tucker out him up and toss off his wife . Leonard privation retaliation , but the exclusively problem is , he ca n’t call up who make water him this way . dry , is n’t it ? To turn tail this catch-22 , Leonard spell admonisher all over his eubstance so that he can easy puzzle out backwards and tell his measure to before the mutilate . Memento is the flick that skyrocket Christopher Nolan to conductor - stardom , base near of his experience brandmark , let in clock time manipulation , noir chemical element , and stagnant wife . interpret succeeding : The dependable moving-picture show about storage departure and nous use

# 10 . personal identity ( 2003 )#

# 9 . The Hangover ( 2009 )#

# 8 . Donnie Darko ( 2001 )#

# 7 . Two supporter ( 1986 )#

# 6 . The Sweet Hereafter ( 1997 )#

# 5 . The Prestige ( 2006 )#

# 4 . 500 twenty-four hours of summer ( 2009 )#

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

# 2 . Peppermint Candy ( 1999 )#

# 1 . Memento ( 2000 )#