Retroactive correction reading list
We're looking for any example of two events in a book, movie, show, or game, in which the second event changes what you thought about the first.
FILMS—some of these may have one big reveal/spoiler/retroactive correction, others may be fraught with game-changing plot twists...
- Primer
- Fight Club
- Memento
- Criminal
- Double Indemnity
- The Matrix—one of the biggest reveals ever?
- The Wizard of Oz
- Sixth Sense
- The Crying Game
- Planet of the Apes
- (numerous Twilight Zone episodes, notably "Five Characters in Search of an Exit")
- Contender
- 21 Grams
- Star Wars "I am your father, Luke"
- The Others
- Blade Runner (director's cut - Deckard is a replcant)
- Scooby-Doo
NOVELS
- Stanislaw Lem > The Futurological Congress — I think they stole the Matrix from this
- Chuck Palahniuk > Fight Club
- Iain Banks > The Wasp Factory
- Katzuo Ishiguro > Never Let Me Go