Definition: Nonlinear narrative is a narrative technique where events are portrayed, for example out of chronological order, or in other ways where the narrative doesn't follow the direct causality pattern of the events featured, such as parallel distinctive plot lines, dream immersions or narrating another story inside the main plot-line. It is often used to mimic the structure and recall of human memory but has been applied for other reasons as well.
Nonlinear narrative is used to make films more interesting and artistic. Many filmmakers use nonlinear in order to make their stories more mysterious. A famous example of this in Christopher Nolan's psychological thriller Momento, which shows the film in alternating black & white and colour scenes, the colour scenes play in reverse order and start with the end of the film, and the black and white are in chronological order and start at the beggining. This means the film starts at the end, then begins and finishes in the middle. This narrative structure is used because the films protagonist has short-term memory loss and cannot remember thing five minuites after they happen. The director uses his strange narrative in order to make the audience as confused as the hero.
Nonlinear structure is used in many genres of film, such as rom-com (500 Days of Summer), crime films (Pulp Fiction), drama (The Presteige) and our chosen genre, Comic book films (Watchmen and Sin City).
We used nonlinear in order to make our movie seem more unique and outside the box, and because it is becoming more popular.
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