Tarantino = Overrated??

[J. J. Hunsecker]

Originally Posted by awongshing

Before Pulp Fiction I don’t remember films not going in chronological order with the expectation that the audience would to be smart enough to put the time line in order. This is something that has been done in several films since Pulp Fiction.

A few that come to mind:

Citizen Kane (1941) -- some of the flashbacks are out of sequence, or jump through time, or we see the same events but through different perspectives depending on who is telling the story.

The Killing (1956) -- the time shifting occurs during the racetrack heist, where we see the same events from the point of view of the different robbers.

Images (1972) -- disjointed nonlinear storytelling due to the fact that the main character is insane.