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.
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.
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.
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.
Spitz is a sweeper and, for the novel's three-day, flashback-filled present, our guide to the new (and hence the old) reality.
The awkward segues between flashbacks and present-day events?
Flashbacks and present day images are linked with match cut cinematography.
