I was thinking about the Sandy Hook Promise: Gun violence warning signs video where a stereotypical teen romance story plays out and in the background someone gives off warning signs that they’re going to go on a shooting spree and it’s made me wonder if there are movies that follow a similar setup of building something up in the background just to have it completely overtake the main story line.
Like an average city girl following in love with a prince but you see protests and other signs of civil unrest in the background and the prince gets assassinated at the wedding. Maybe some kind of story that ends in 9/11 or the Cold War turning hot. Some kind of discount M. Night Shyamalan-style twist.
Not a movie, but the webcomic Homestuck is chalk full of this stuff
Perfect Blue.
Story and editing like it should the indie darling classic it is.
There’s a season of Community where Ahbed befriends a woman who becomes pregnant and in the end helps her deliver a baby in the back of a car.
I feel like a lot of Anime’s have that kind of twist, where all is revealed, with plenty of background clues on first watch.
Mirai Nikki springs to mind
Devs.
