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Wilson begins with a flashback to the year 1725, when a little-known scholar named Giambattista Vico brought out a book based on a rather dazzling notion. Social history, he saw, was not, as man had long conceived it, a mysterious pageant presided over by God. It was, instead, a work of man. Society has laws and patterns that can be descried, like the laws of science, and used to improve the human lot. To the Finland Station ends after the fall of the czar in 1917 with the exiled Lenin's return to Russia (via the Finland Station...
Walking into a movie theater these days is often like walking into a flashback. Many of the new releases are actually sequels to successes of summers past. Among them...
...story takes place after Byron's death, so the hero appears only in flashback and as a ghost. The whole work is framed as an answer to the question of why Westminster Abbey would not allow Byron's body to be interred there. Thomson might almost have called it "One Sinner in Three Acts," because he dwells almost exclusively on the rakish side of Byron's character-his playboy excesses, his foppish haughtiness, his promiscuous escapades with both sexes. The listener must take Byron's poetic and personal genius on faith...
Neatest reach for historical verisimilitude: Robbins, who in a flashback has Hardeman telephone Walter Reuther in 1937 to warn him that the Battle of the Overpass (in which auto company goons beat up unsuspecting union organizers) is about to occur. · John Skow
...form of the film is exasperating. The story is told in an implied flashback, with numerous flash-forwards to the narrator intercut with the main action. These do not make a discernible comment, though the wordless Michael Redgrave is such an expressive actor that some of the brief cuts are affecting. The film is not as expressive...