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Toheeb Jimoh as Antony Walker, BBC Studios
In 1991, Martin Amis took on the subgenre in his Booker-nominated Time's Arrow, which follows a German Holocaust scientist experiencing his life backward Amis used the time-going-backward structure to explore the atrocities the Nazis committed. The genre found its way to recent movies as well, with Christopher Nolan's Memento in 2000 turning the story into a[...]