backwards

  • Movie Mondays: Swohs VT Sdrawkcab = Backwards TV Shows

    ~posted by Library Staff In last week’s post, we looked at movies that use reverse chronology—telling their stories in backwards order. This device has also been used to great effect in several TV shows. The most famous example is “The Betrayal,” an episode of Seinfeld in which a series of romantic misadventures unfold in reverse order.… Continue reading

  • Movie Mondays: Seivom Sdrawkcab = Backwards Movies

    ~posted by Library Staff I love movies that play with time: the “parallel-universe” narratives of Run Lola Run and Mr. Nobody, the event-shuffling of (500) Days of Summer, the dizzyingly-intercut centuries of Cloud Atlas and The Fountain, the decade-hopping of The Hours, the surreal repetitions of Groundhog Day and Edge of Tomorrow, or the real-time… Continue reading