Word: flashbacks
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Their conversation soon turns toward last year as X insists that they were lovers. He vividly recounts their words and the camera dissolves to the past in the middle of a direct quotation completed by the X of the flashback. This is the supposed past, the fourth level...
Ikiru describes a death occuring over the space of five months. But literally translated, the title means "to live." Watanabe's last day would be the final entry in a plot summary, but skillful use of flashback makes possible a switch between the presentations of his death and the struggle for the park, Ikiru's last scene is not Watanabe dead, but Watanabe watching children in the park he has forced through city hall. It is a very moving ending to a superbly acted and photographed film...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). A filmed flashback: New York...
...merely exchanged bosses and became the tool of the union leaders. Like a panorama of the labor movement, the individual case histories unfold. Blackie Bowman is one of labor's gabby old soldiers. From the veterans' hospital bed on which he is dying, he does a flashback recall of his life as a seaman, a miner and a wobbly of the I.W.W. Mostly it is a schooling of hard knocks on his own skull, including a stretch in prison...
...unfaithful), and humanity (when as last he meets his mother they squander their moment together in awkward small talk); he is convincing. Shura's part is acted with purity and directness. This young Russian actress has a face so lovely that I didn't even resent Alyosha's soppy flashback memories...