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I've always called it "nonlinear multi-perspective". Rashomon is probably the best known example of this structure in storytelling. It's a movie based on Ryunosuke Akutagawa's short story "In a Gr...
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I've always called it "nonlinear multi-perspective". _Rashomon_ is probably the best known example of this structure in storytelling. It's a movie based on Ryunosuke Akutagawa's short story "In a Grove" (the movie's title is from another of Akutagawa's stories). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In\_a\_Grove](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_a_Grove) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry%C5%ABnosuke\_Akutagawa](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry%C5%ABnosuke_Akutagawa) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashomon\_(film)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashomon_(film))