Flashback, Flashback Flashback!

Rating: 9/10 (12 December 2014)

I really love a good film with a nice set of flashback story telling, and this one is it! Straight from the beginning we are thrown into a deep story about a group of people trying to get to the bottom of a rich mans last utterance, and the director takes the viewer through a flashback joy ride. This film incorporated great camera angles of the ceiling , lighting techniques and quick jump shots, which is largely part of the reason why this film was so groundbreaking: in that all of the elements of editing and cinematography that are seen in Citizen Kane had never really been put together in the same film before. Another thing that i truly enjoyed with this film was that the flashback story telling came from multiple narrators and not just a single one, which again was something that had never really been done prior to this film.