In 1956, a 27-year-old Stanley Kubrick made a heist film with a structural idea so unusual that test audiences demanded it be re-cut in chronological order.
“The Killing” tells the story of a $2 million racetrack robbery, told from the fractured perspectives of the heist’s crew. It was one of the first American films to deliberately fragment its own timeline… a technique most audiences only know from Quentin Tarantino and Christopher Nolan.
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