on-screen stories that show multiple outcomes of the same moments in time.
Youve got your time loops.
Youve got your parallel realities.
Youve got your differing perspectives of the same event.
Often, they are relegated to just one, single day though not always.
They are an exploration of cause and effect in a medium that is all about cause and effect.
Also, often there are trains.
Here are seven of our favorite examples of multiple reality on-screen storytelling likeRun Lola Run…
Instead, we are left with a thematically-complex, morally-challenging film that doesnt let the viewer off so easily.
The film goes from there, showing three separate possible series of events… Witek is establishment political (i.e.
Communist), then radically political (i.e.
anti-Communist), then apolitical.
Plus, there is poker.
Its a Bill Murray classic one part comedy, one part soul-crushing angst, and one part morality tale.
The basic time-loopy premise: TV meteorologist Phil Connors is kind of the worst.
He also eventually tries commiting suicide.
In one version of events, Helen arrives home in time to find her boyfriend cheating on her.
In the other, she does not, staying ignorant of his infidelity.
However,Sliding Doorsis quietly subversive in this way.
Heres the plot: Lola gets a phone call from her boyfriend Manni.
He needs 100,000 marks or his boss is going to kill him.
For an episode that involves Mulder and Scully dying multiple times, Monday is also pretty funny.
