Word: flashback
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...wants to shake up the linear traditions of film, wakes up a tired genre with Insomnia. When Pacino shoots his partner, the director's subtle touches leave the audience wondering whether the cop did it on purpose. The same scene appears slightly different each time it is viewed in flashback. "I tend to have quite a fractured mise-en-scene, to use a phrase I don't really understand," says Nolan, who was born in England, studied at University College London and developed his taste for the shady side from American film noir...
...sent her mother’s diary, whom she has distanced from, she becomes increasingly drawn to her heritage—her mother’s exploits with her “Ya-Ya Sisters” in the 30’s South. What ensues is a flashback-filled romp through the land of womanhood, sisterly love, and the divine secrets of Sandra Bullock’s acting...
...story is told in the form of a flashback, as discussed in Berlin in 2003 by the children of two of the main characters, who, by happenstance, bump into one another while they are both vacationing in the same spot. Over the course of the novel, the plot reveals itself in many different ways: it changes narrators, follows different characters, and even appears in the form of issues of The Bill Board, Ben’s school newspaper...
This method effectively gives the reader a full, three-dimensional view of the plot, characters and historical context. Nonetheless, it can be confusing, particularly in the beginning when one does not yet have a comprehensive grasp of who all the characters are. Additionally, although the flashback from Berlin in 2003 helps to set the scene and ties in rather well with some of the obscure details that appear in the bulk of the novel, the departure from and return to the present day serve as rather weak bookends for what is a very self-contained story. The exploits...
With Ms. Lewinsky on HBO, March is Monica Flashback Month, a good time to remember that McCarthyism may be gone but witch-hunts will always be with us. A good time, too, for The Crucible, Arthur Miller's 1953 warning against communal hysteria, which uses the Salem witch trials as its model for hypocrisy. This lucid if uneven Broadway staging stars a ferocious Liam Neeson, still the thinking man's hunk. Laura Linney has the more subdued role as his suffering wife. But her gift for finding fire in the quietest corners of normality makes her Neeson's equal...