The Rules of Attraction

Our first port of call research-wise was the use of reverse footage as this would be the most difficult aspect of production to achieve well. Aside from music videos the first thing I recalled was Roger Avary's 'The Rules of Attraction' (2002). Following the relationships between three college students, their individual narrative will run its discourse up until a point before their actions are rewinded, taking them back to the central social hub (in all cases a party), where a different character will be introduced and their actions followed.

This is used several times throughout the film and is and interestingly unique way to intertwine individual character arcs within the narrative.

full introduction clip but low quality