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kleinbl00  ·  3414 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are your favorite films with non linear narratives?

Head.

Written by Jack Nicholson, starring The Monkees in that era after they were done being TV stars and decided to become psychedelic rock gods.

I would argue that these movies rarely work outside of the nonlinear narrative. Pulp Fiction, minus the editing, is a pale reflection of Killing Zoe, Reservoir Dogs, True Romance or Natural Born Killers. Memento is literally a subplot in Winter Sleepers extended to a bombastic and tiring 90 minutes. But Head is such a psychotronic bizarro-fest that the nonlinear narrative becomes about the only thing holding anything together.