Eduqas GCSE Film Studies · C670
Component 1, Component 2
A scene or sequence that moves back to an earlier event in the story.
Revise: NarrativeIn Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle, 2008), Jamal Malik recounts experiences that explain how he knows the answers to the questions on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? His life experiences occurred before the quiz, but the plot reveals them through flashbacks linked to the questions. This arrangement makes each answer both part of the competition and a discovery about Jamal’s past.
- Revise: Invasion of the Body Snatchers: contexts, genre and narrative
A movement in a narrative to events that happened earlier.