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...remember, just after the war, when some men needed a domestic outlet for the martial skills they had learned overseas. That explains some of the violence in film noir, and the flashback format which, even if it didn't specifically refer to a wartime trauma, suggested that men were prisoners of what they had seen and endured...
...people were killed, nearly 1,000 injured and some 20,000 families left homeless by the July 17 tsunami that hit a 177-km stretch of Java. Triggered by a magnitude-7.7 undersea earthquake about 200 km offshore, the 2-m waves that slammed ashore were a frightening flashback to the December 2004 tsunami that claimed the lives of 230,000 around the Indian Ocean. Now, as then, the victims were taken by surprise. "There was no warning," Irawan says. "We didn't even feel the earthquake...
...chugging its intro and quickly explodes. Sights and sounds bombard the audience: skyrockets on two large projection screens, silhouettes of the group and a frenetic milling of the cast, including bungee-cord duos (the boy above, the girl bouncing below). It's a rambunctious cue for nostalgia, for emotional flashback. Love calls on the audience, and the Beatles as well, to take a return trip "to where you once belonged...
Don’t be surprised if you feel like you’ve heard some of the patter and pop-culture references of “Slevin” before. Director Paul McGuigan and writer Jason Smilovic owe the larger part of their souls to Guy Ritchie (for flashback sequences with crazy lens shading), John Woo (for slow-motion fight scenes), and Quentin Tarantino (for the entire script and plot...
Finally, the third and most radical option would be a flashback to 1981 and the Israeli air strikes on Osirak, Saddam’s best shot at nuclear proliferation. The protagonist for such move could be not only the over-stretched U.S., but also Israel, the only nuclear power of the region, and a indefatigable antagonist of Teheran. Yet, such a move would assure full-fledged war with the theocracy, and the latter’s main power lies not in Shehab-3 missiles that can reach Jerusalem, but in the power it has over oil prices, everyone?...