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For a screenplay, it is probably more important to be clear than to have excellent, flowing prose. (I'm not a screenwriter.) For the more-general case of descriptive prose, however, one approach is to convert "they are" verbal clauses to adjectival clauses. Instead of:
Hundreds of people are standing and looking at the on-coming train. Their sweating ...
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The TV Tropes jargon for this kind of story is stable time loop. They list Pratchett's Pyramids as an example of the trope. The concept of a stable time loop as ontological paradox is called the bootstrap paradox, after a Robert A. Heinlein story of this nature.
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I propose ouroborean story, after the fabled snake Ouroboros, who ends up eating its own tail.
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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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