Submitted by Nerdy_Drewette t3_126rf5c in movies
I really enjoyed the Netflix movie I See You. Without giving any spoilers, I really enjoy when you watch the same "scene" twice from a different perspective or with different intent/feelings. If you can convince me to swap who I'm rooting for, I think it's an excellent twist. Glass Onion did this a bit, too.
Any other movies where you get the story from multiple perspectives / different motives?
It’s the Rashimon effect essentially
I haven't heard of it! I love watching a movie with no trailer/context so I'm excited
Ok I really am missing out, I'll be sure to watch this immediately. Second recommendation for it. Thank you!!
The Last Duel
Courage Under Fire (1996) is a good film that utilizes multiple perspectives. Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan, and Matt Damon star.
People are saying Rashomon, but I don't think that's what you're describing. Rashomon shows multiple narratives around an event, which is to say that it's not the same scene, it's a set of different stories around the same past event.
As far as other examples of what you're describing, it kind of sounds like a classic one is in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. We see a set of scenes partway through the film and then again toward the end in a way that recontextualizes them. In fact, the HP movies love this, with Snape's actions in the first movie being a good example.
It's a common horror tactic as well, with some of the Nightmare on Elm Street contrasting what a person perceives with how others see them responding. Saint Maud has a great example of this at the end as well. Though this technique, in which the same scene is shown from massively different (some of them very distorted) perspectives might be pushing the meaning of the post a bit far as well.
The last example I can think of is Inland Empire, in which the scenes of the movie kind of fold in on themselves as it progresses. It's hard to explain, but it basically sets up a number of ontological layers (the film, the film within the film, the film that the film within a film is based on, the person in the film watching the film in a theater, etc.) and connects them in various ways such that you see something that happened at one point of the movie from a very different perspective later.
I just saw it yesterday :)
This movie was very underrated
Tenet
Pulp Fiction
One of the early greats by one of the world’s best directors of all time! You are in for a treat!
Vantage Point
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Jackie Brown
Not a movie but the series “Poker Face” does this pretty well.
Its an old one but really interesting. We watched it in a film elective i took once. Apparently its like compulsory for movie nerds lol going by the comments here
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Dm me? Would love to discuss with someone but don't want to give it away
One Cut of the Dead is like the apex of this
Here's a movie with the ambition to really go all the way with that concept, but not enough talent to pull it off:
He Said, She Said (1991). At the movie's halfway mark the narrative starts over and tells the story from the opposite perspective.
The Handmaiden (2016) is exactly what you've described
VanishXZone t1_jeaeaji wrote
Classic example to recommend here is Rashomon, by Kurosawa.