Word: flashbacks
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...most pathetic: the father (Spencer Tracy) of the bride (Actress Taylor). Tracy, slumped in an armchair, massages a stockinged foot and begins to recount the events leading up to the disaster. Then, with his wry comments as counterpoint on the soundtrack, the movie takes up the account in flashback...
...plumply padded with this sort of verbiage that it resembles a kind of composite morning & evening tummy-round, full, and yet flat as a board. Replete with bestselling ingredients. The Parasites is constructed on layer-cake lines, i.e., a chapter about the dismal present is sandwiched between two flashback chapters about the glamourous past. Three main characters, members of the Delaney family, take turns telling the story. All get their chance to report in a chapter how they were seduced in their youth and, in the next, how they were reduced to frayed middle age-a sort of time-consuming...
...some curious reason, the director started the story with the death of Bosinney and used a flashback to recount the central action of the picture. For those who had not read the book, this must have taken much of the punch out of the plot. If this wasn't enough to do so, then the astonishingly dull seript was. Some of the lines were so trite, that I felt the way an English A teacher must when his pupils read their early themes...
...wrinkle in an old face, "The Long Wait" spans the brief interval between an impending automobile collision and the death of one of its occupants. Author Daniel Ellsberg takes his central character through a dreaming flashback and unconquerable optimism before the car hurtles off the road and overturns...
...same flashback, Walter Pidgeon careened down a street with horse & buggy This caused Tito to say hopefully, "Cowboys!" But we saw no more horses, and Tito slumped back, disappointed...