Word: flashback
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Director Sidney Lumet and screenwriters Waldo Salt and Norman Wexler follow the structure of the Peter Maas biography. The portrait of the wounded Serpico, being shuttled to a hospital from Harlem, hooks us as the film opens; we then flashback to the highlights of the policeman's career and life. These chart the growth of the man's disillusionment and discontent, as well as the strength of his personal integrity. The film develops with its title character: the derailment of Serpico's life both by those police who were corrupt and those who refused to inflict punishment, carries as much...
Grande Dame. Eye is about an old woman, Elizabeth Hunter, who is dying in her Sydney mansion, attended by a devoted staff of five. The old lady's mind wanders occasionally, but in general she is shrewd, wise and feisty. Now, that is. In long flashback sequences portraying her as a belle of society, wife of a rich man and mother of two bright children, she is made to seem dimmer...
Everything in the film could be considered a kind of flashback from this one moment. Mick reassesses his recent life with the new knowledge that the only way to deal with absurdity is to recognize it. Winning that insight, he may be again the lucky...
...Flashback to the teen...
...trying to betray the other. The film (whose original Swedish title means "The Clown's Evening") is Bergman's first masterpiece. Many people interpret it as being totally pessimistic, but its ending (the pair walking in silence alongside the caravan) and the memories of the clown, Frost (in the flashback near the beginning and when Frost relates a dream at the end) point to the life-giving power of resignation and companionship...