: Re: How to express concisely the circular concept of a beginning and future simultaneously? There are many movies/books which have an ending that is the foundation for the beginning of the story,

@Bryan361

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The cinematic or literary device of placing the ending at the beginning of a film or novel is called flash-forward.

It places an ineluctable, fixed point in the viewer's (or reader's) mind.

(To Jubobs's point, this phrase describes the fixed point, but is less about the story classification.)

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