Chronology reshuffled, dilated or folded — structure used as an argument about a life, rather than as a puzzle for the audience to solve.
Pulp Fiction1994 · Quentin TarantinoVincent dies in the third movement and is alive in the fourth; the reshuffle is not a trick but a moral device, letting the film close on the one man who walks away.
Everything Everywhere All at Once2022 · Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert★ 4.3 · 1The cut does work a plot device normally would: a mid-sentence jump to another universe is both the film's grammar and its claim that a life is the sum of its branches.
Interstellar2014 · Christopher NolanTime is the antagonist and the structure at once — an hour on one surface costs decades at home, and the last act folds the first scene into its own ending.