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TIL when Stanley Kubrick made "The Killing", a 1956 noir heist film, the studio demanded he add in a narrator to explain the nonlinear order of events so the audience wouldn't get confused. Kubrick eventually added the narration which gave the audience inaccurate times to confuse them further.

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