Then the screen goes white, and we're in a flashback.
In September 2008, it was reported that actresses Blake Lively and Leighton Meester, who star on Gossip Girl, were set to guest star on the show as former high school classmates of Liz's in a flashback sequence, but the appearances fell through.
Initially the film featured a scene in which the present day heroine accidentally receives a dupatta preserved in a museum that is used in the flashbacks as the dupatta Bhairava and Ranadheer race for.
The movie is framed by the adult Pi telling a French guest the story of his childhood and survival — the story that is seen, onscreen, in flashback.
The Hollywood Reporter noted that it all seemed "a bit too obvious", noting the fact that Jackson, who plays Fury, is reprising the role in Avengers: Age of Ultron, although pointing out that it could be in a postmortem flashback appearance.
It turns out that his bouts of rudeness mask a personal tragedy that is revealed slowly, in grainy flashbacks.
Igby's father, Jason Bill Pullmann), is in a mental hospital after a schizophrenic breakdown that is shown midmovie in a harrowing flashback.
Although the film shows Woodroof diagnosed in 1985, he told Borten that a doctor had informed him he might have had the disease well before that; Woodroof believed that he may have been infected in 1981, something that was briefly alluded to in a flashback in the film.
In flashbacks, Hugo "Hurley" Reyes is in a mental institution, where he deals with an imaginary friend, Dave.
It was revealed in a flashback that he was involved with a woman, but the two split up when Mr. Burns came between them.
