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Non-linear narrative is Nolan ’s characteristic. Nolan ’s “Memento” is a typical example. Various narrative techniques are intertwined to absolutely burn your brain. This is not a high IQ movie. It ’s just a matter of structure. Nolan structure is not as impressive as the legend, but it is also enough to be clever enough to absolutely grasp the viewer. Nolan ’s nonlinear narrative.Non-linear narrative form art is the most charismatic and genius factor of a director.
Non-linear narrative structure
He got rid of the traditional film narrative mode and brought a fresh and refined art to the audience with his genius-like wisdom and unique narrative style. Breath, it can be said, "He finally made the Hollywood genre film with a rotten atmosphere finally win a chance to turn over." He is a great promoter and excellent conductor of the movie's nonlinear narrative style.Non-linear narrative belongs to a kind of formalist narrative.
It is prominently shown in postmodern narratives that the director deliberately disrupts the sequence or highlights and reorganizes the events to get the most clear theme. Since the 1990s, the post-classical or post-modern narrative theory of "new narratology" has gradually emerged in the West. Lyotard, a well-known contemporary French philosopher and postmodern theorist, believes that postmodernity is an attitude of suspicion, distrust and rejection of the original narrative or grand narrative structure. The postmodern movie discourse "don't believe the original narrative" and "fight to the whole", like the phenomenon of combination, patchwork, accidental acquisition or fragmentation, so that fragments or parts replace the whole."Following", the debut film of Nolan's film, created Nolan's non-linear narrative structure style.
On the basis of flashback, the film completely breaks timeline, relying on "breakpoints" as the supporting points of the plot connection, and telling the story with three interlaced timelines. In "Following", the director divides the story into three parts, taking the male character Bill's appearance as the dividing point: Bill with long hair in leather, Bill with short hair in suit, and Bill with injured face. After these three parts were over, they faced Bill who appeared in the police station and defended himself. This is called Non-linear narrative structure.
At the beginning of the film, the director started the whole film's narrative with a sentence of "the following is my confession", that is, the self-defense that should appear at the end of the story was placed at the beginning of the film early. But the picture provided by the movie is the earliest of the protagonist, that is, the first part of wearing a leather coat with long hair. Next, enter the "text" part of the film, using the first, second, and third parts to narrate in parallel, shuttle back and forth in three time periods.
Non-linear narrative structure
He got rid of the traditional film narrative mode and brought a fresh and refined art to the audience with his genius-like wisdom and unique narrative style. Breath, it can be said, "He finally made the Hollywood genre film with a rotten atmosphere finally win a chance to turn over." He is a great promoter and excellent conductor of the movie's nonlinear narrative style.Non-linear narrative belongs to a kind of formalist narrative.
It is prominently shown in postmodern narratives that the director deliberately disrupts the sequence or highlights and reorganizes the events to get the most clear theme. Since the 1990s, the post-classical or post-modern narrative theory of "new narratology" has gradually emerged in the West. Lyotard, a well-known contemporary French philosopher and postmodern theorist, believes that postmodernity is an attitude of suspicion, distrust and rejection of the original narrative or grand narrative structure. The postmodern movie discourse "don't believe the original narrative" and "fight to the whole", like the phenomenon of combination, patchwork, accidental acquisition or fragmentation, so that fragments or parts replace the whole."Following", the debut film of Nolan's film, created Nolan's non-linear narrative structure style.
On the basis of flashback, the film completely breaks timeline, relying on "breakpoints" as the supporting points of the plot connection, and telling the story with three interlaced timelines. In "Following", the director divides the story into three parts, taking the male character Bill's appearance as the dividing point: Bill with long hair in leather, Bill with short hair in suit, and Bill with injured face. After these three parts were over, they faced Bill who appeared in the police station and defended himself. This is called Non-linear narrative structure.
At the beginning of the film, the director started the whole film's narrative with a sentence of "the following is my confession", that is, the self-defense that should appear at the end of the story was placed at the beginning of the film early. But the picture provided by the movie is the earliest of the protagonist, that is, the first part of wearing a leather coat with long hair. Next, enter the "text" part of the film, using the first, second, and third parts to narrate in parallel, shuttle back and forth in three time periods.
