The rest of the plot plays out through flashback, present-tense heroic action, radical perspective shifts and, of course, cartoonish violence.
Not only does Isolde slit her wrists before singing her farewell; Tristan suffers a self-inflicted wound, and, in a flashback presented as a black-and-white film montage, Tristan's father shoots himself.
The story, told mostly in flashback, presents Fanny Brice as a young woman from the slums of New York City who is determined to succeed in show business despite her gawky manner and unglamorous looks.
In this stricken family melodrama, pivoting on a characteristically excellent, flashback-present Isabelle Huppert as a deceased mother and war photographer, the conflicts are a little too tidy.
Everything that happens afterward, be it told through flashbacks present-day ruminations, or any one of three other characters, is connected to Will's passing.
The track gets an equally impressionistic music video by Alex Beaumont, which he describes as a "voyeuristic monochromatic series of flashbacks presented through scarred channels," producing altered states and unfamiliar landscapes.
Spitz is a sweeper and, for the novel's three-day, flashback-filled present, our guide to the new (and hence the old) reality.
Having brought its characters together in a New York hospital by a serious accident, "Next Fall" alternates between flashback and present-tense scenes to examine those differences and to consider the leaps of faith that any relationship requires.
Flashbacks and present day images are linked with match cut cinematography.
I was equally engaged by all of the episode's story threads, both flashbacks and present, and it was good to finally see Amelia showing some personality and a little humor this week.
Each chapter of "Watchmen" ends with a chapter of Hollis "Nite Owl" Mason's memoir "Under the Hood" that amplifies both the modern-day and flashback scenes presented within the chapter.
