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What Mr. Ruddy proposed was not a cop-out, exactly, but rather a lot of tricky camerawork — a flashback here, a match-dissolve there, a dolly-back and a pan — so the audience couldn't be entirely certain what had happened.
Listen on Spotify It opens with Indoor Games Near Newbury, the clippity-clop of frisky tea-room jazz as the backdrop to Betjeman's flashback, here concerning young, unconsummated love played out in a dark cupboard during a kids' Christmas party.
Having begun his career feted for sped-up soul samples on Jay-Z productions – Devil in a New Dress supplies a flashback here – West is now notorious for his behaviour, rather than his music: his petulant egomania, compulsive tweeting, hissy fits at award ceremonies and, more compellingly, for causing what Bush described as the lowest point of his presidency.
) Given just how long it has been, you might well expect L'Enfant to gently ease the viewer back into the Returned's beguiling world, dropping in the odd reminder or flashback here and there to help us get us back up to speed.
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There are flashbacks here, too, though Mr. Fischer films his with a cold, bluish tint.
The fact that the story was told in first person throughout meant that Emily probably wanted flashbacks here and there.
Some great flashbacks here as we pull together some of Hanzee's past, with that subtle line as he asks Peggy for a haircut – "I'm tired of this life" – maybe just enough motivation for him to want to "finish the job" with her and Ed.
And rarely get their story story told in more than a few flashback panels here and there.
Given our earlier experimental demonstration that engaging in visuospatial tasks peri-traumatically (i.e. during trauma film viewing) reduces subsequent intrusive imagery (analog flashbacks), we tested here whether the window for intervention could be extended into the post-trauma period (i.e. after trauma film viewing).
What happens among the three of them, told here in flashback, makes for a plot that's merely serviceable.
As a film, "Iris" works mainly by flashback, a technique which here never seems to obtrude on the viewer's sense of continuity -- what is going on at the present time in the film, and what went on in the past, in happier times.
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