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Author: NemuruMaeNi

Jun 2nd 2014 at 2:26:50 AM

How about this approach? (I bolded some parts to make tendency obvious)

"Repeating the same scene '''can be''' a powerful effect, used for emphasis or drama. '''Sometimes''' however, the same event is viewed from a different perspective and something new was learned that wasn't apparent when we saw the event the first time around.
This trope is about how seeing or experiencing events again, only this time, from a different perspective, '''can result''' in very, VERY different ideas on what's going on.
This '''can be done''' to show a twist in the story or be used to make one character look good and/or make another character look bad.
This trope '''can be used''' to show that a character is an Unreliable Narrator, by having the new scene play out from an outside or honest perspective. It '''can also be used''' this way to discover the unreliable narration was the result of False Memories."

Before exploring possibility of various applications, a description should have a definition of what to actually look out for in a text, or a show. See established tropes' pages. Before going all out on "if"s, "can"s, "sometimes"s, they start with something solid, essential, core.

To be blunt, the essence of this "trope" is in the dark. Which allows to shoehorn quite various examples in.
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In regards to 2014-05-30 08:56:14 by crazysamaritan. In Men in Black there were no ''repeats'' (I'm trying to grab at straws from the description), Edwards just answered the question. The film does not say he made the right decision (or guessed the decision required). If anything, the relevance of this test to end-result is handwaved by Agent K having gone on to remind Zed about Edwards' success in chasing down a very agile alien. Edwards has just made an argueably outrageous move (shoot a little girl representation to death), demonstrated good marksmanship and problems with his attitude (sort of lampshaded by Zed, no time is wasted to further explain that on-screen though), got a chance to explain himself and used that chance to spin a tale. To what extend the tale is true -- you don't know.

There's no "same scene" "same events" "same whatever" in [=MiB=] case. You can't match the wit of Edwards, because you're not shown any details Edwards is pointing out to Zed (accompanied by camera focusing on them) before they've already filled everything with bullets. No replays, no double takes, no reminiscence, no nothing. Railroad through difference compared to other recruits, semi-superficial outrageousness, and being unfazed by and defiant to an overbearing proctor who he has little idea about. Whose perspectives are different from whose here? Edwards' from other participants'? Maybe. But was ''that'' the trope? Context wording did not imply that at all. And, not to forget, description-like mass of text also has a part about "learning something new" for the audience by comparing the two perspectives (it looked near-paramount earlier). [[PeopleSitOnChairs Nothing to trope in that regard]] as no matter how similar or different two things are, when you're first being given one thing and then being given the second, you're being given something new.