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Re:Inception movie explained programmatically with C and ass... by Cheyana on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @09:33AM (#15027284)
Great. Now do Memento.
Re:Inception movie explained programmatically with C and ass... by MarcScott on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @04:22PM (#15031033)
Or Primer.
Re:Inception movie explained programmatically with C and ass... by zentiggr on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @04:54PM (#15031293)
timestamp = now

while (true); if ( now - timestamp > rand() ) now = now - rand();

Re:Inception movie explained programmatically with C and ass... by bonzini on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @04:04PM (#15030823)
$ man tac
Re:Inception movie explained programmatically with C and ass... by DeepRote on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @05:12PM (#15031412)

    def memento(x=Float::INFINITY)
      memento(x-1)
    end
Re:Inception movie explained programmatically with C and ass... by qbrass on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @09:52PM (#15033103)
The events in color are reverse-order and take place after the shooting of Jimmy. The events in black-and-white are in-order and take place before the shooting.

The movie interleaves them so you have a post-shooting event then a pre-shooting event until you get to the end where the shooting happens then it leads to the exposition.

Re:Inception movie explained programmatically with C and ass... by arethuza on Thursday August 17, 2017 @07:13AM (#15035635)
That sounds similar to the structure of the Culture novel "Use of Weapons":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_Weapons

Re:Inception movie explained programmatically with C and ass... by DeepRote on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @09:55PM (#15033124)
I was going for just the overview