Hyperlink Cinema
A term coined by Film Comment in 2005. Ebert popularized the term. More official, modern examples may have stylistic flourishes in common like captions working as cross-reference and split-screen---in an age influenced by the internet and thus a culture of multitasking---monkeying around with time and characters’ back stories, plot twists, interlaced and mingling plot strands between numerous characters and jumping between beginning and end also tend to be essentials. But at its core, hyperlink cinema is where characters or action in a movie occupy unconnected independent stories, but a link or stimulus between those unrelated plot lines is gradually revealed to us. Robert Altman arguably established the configuration for the genre and, while he intended the overall structural elements for a more atmospheric purpose, showed its value and wit for merging intermingling plots in his films.
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