DI - Flashback and Subjective Narration (Assessment)

Question 1

The single most important narrative device in the film is the sustained use of flashback which contextualises all ______ and imposes a unity of time, space and action.

Answer 1

Events

Question 2

The use of flashback involves depicting events in the presents and some form of resolution. As such, it obeys a _____________ order, albeit in reverse, and doesn’t really involve more radical forms of non-linear expression.

Answer 2

Chronological

Question 3

The use of flashback narration was an important generic feature of film noir. Paul ________ has argued that flashback ‘creates… irretrievable past, a predetermined fate, and an all-enveloping hopelessness’.

Answer 3

Schrader

Question 4

The device is integral to the thematic coherence of Double Indemnity as Neff is indeed a figure without hope or a future whose ____ is about to be pursued ‘straight down the line’

Answer 4

Fate

Question 5

As Neff sits rhythmically speaking into the dictaphone machine, struggling to light a cigarette, dry the sweat from his brow and stem the blood from his wound, we realise that escape is __________.

Answer 5

Impossible