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drupoxy t1_jeahbsf wrote

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.

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