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Movies which end at the beginning...

Hi guys,

A friend is looking for some examples of films where the opening scene or beginning of the movie is the end result and we spend the rest of the movie seeing the events leading up to it. I could only come up with the Hangover, but he's reluctant to use that. Anyone have any ideas? I'm blank!
Thanks.

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Reply 1
Grave of the Fireflies
Persepolis
Saving Private Ryan
(edited 12 years ago)
Reply 2
Memento
Seven Pounds

(Will update as I think of more)
Memento
Reply 4
One Day.
Reply 5
Thanks guys! :biggrin:
Pulp Fiction
Goodfellas
Fight Club
Lolita
Reply 7
Melancholia (might have spelt it wrong)
Reply 8
Inception, almost? Depending on your view of the film.
Reply 9
Fight club <3
Reply 10
Original post by chester.
Hi guys,

A friend is looking for some examples of films where the opening scene or beginning of the movie is the end result and we spend the rest of the movie seeing the events leading up to it. I could only come up with the Hangover, but he's reluctant to use that. Anyone have any ideas? I'm blank!
Thanks.


The hangover isn't, it starts in media res.

I can think of some films which are of cyclical nature, which you could argue is and is not what you are looking for:

- An Inspector Calls
- Inception
Reply 11
Fight Club
Grave of the Fireflies
Walk The Line
Donnie Darko (sort of)
Inception
Reply 13
Contagion
Seven Pounds
Reply 14
Pan's Labyrinth...I think
Limitless, sort of.
Original post by Megin
Inception, almost? Depending on your view of the film.


I would say so, yeah.
Reply 17
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
Fight Club
500 days of Summer...kind of.

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