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"Generally what the secular world calls contradictory turns..."

No. There are textual contradictions. The three accounts of Saul on the road to Damascus in the book of Acts for example.

So if you were trying to recreate this event in a movie or play, which version would you use?

The other contradictions are more doctrinal:

Exodus 33:20
20 And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.

Exodus 33:11
11 And the Lord spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.

Numbers 14:14
14 And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that thou Lord art among this people, that thou Lord art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.

Others:

Exodus 22:18
18 ¶Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.

Deuteronomy 5:17
17 Thou shalt not kill.

Mark 10:19
19 Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.

Each one of those passages above are true. They just need context and other explanation put with them, but at face value, the text contradicts itself.

It is what it is.