Word: flashbacks
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...Heart of a Man, Novelist Simenon poses a standard fictional question: What does a man think, feel, and do when suddenly forced to face the imminent reality of death? Unfortunately, the answer in this case tends to dribble away in leaky flashback reveries with seamy Gallic overtones...
Levi's latest book, The Watch, is a flashback to Rome just after the liberation. Based mainly on Levi's actual experiences (many prominent Italians are said to be vaguely recognizable in its pages), The Watch bobbles along without story line or character development. More than anything else, it is a series of literary angle shots of a great world capital, disorganized and politically adrift. The street scenes-Rome's open black market, the shooting of a Fascist informer by a partisan in broad daylight-read as though they had been planned as paintings, full of sensuous...
...Mussolini nor Stalin. While "times were far from peaceful, life had more beneficial organizations and more of the elements of constructive happiness than exist in a 'civilized' world where scientific progress has been prevented to the business of killing." Maybe, say the mediaevalists, the twentieth century needs a quick flashback to what it snobbishly calls the Dark Ages...
...superb British films now revived at the Kenmore, though entirely different in subject matter, are amazingly similar in form and background. Both are told mainly by the method of flashback, one from the psychiatrist's couch and the other from a drawing-room reverie. Both have a musical accompaniment of late Romantic period music which is always insistent and always heavy...
...only blemish on the whole job is the slight confusion created by the first flashback within a flashback. This, however, detracts little from an otherwise top-rate film...