Flashback reviewed by Mark Kermode

Clearly I'm first...

Just watched it!

Just saw Flashback, it came off to me as a pretentiously confusing movie that doesn't care about the audience. How l see it is; if as a film maker you are making a movie for public consumption that blatantly doesn't care about the audience, who are you really making it for?🤷🏾‍♂️

The best way l can describe the experience of watching it is going to a lecture where the lecturer is speaking in a made up language without any regard as to whether the audience understands him or not... The same way the lecturer would be basically talking to himself, essentially this movie has the same effect: it's talking to itself in a language only it can understand, which is alienating to the audience... In short, it is a great example of self important movie making in my opinion & the people who will love this movie are people who love to be confused and brain twisted by a film. If that's not you, don't waste your time and money.

Most confusing movie ever. It's like Butterfly Effect on drugs. This movie, I was so lost.

can not believe your talking about this movie no one knows what it's a bout omg it sucks

Just watched it. I found it emotional and quite beautiful.

Alright i’m just gonna ask since i can’t find anything online that explains this movie… So is Cindy Fred’s mom?

Alright, so I've been waiting for this movie to come out since forever. Finally have watched it and would anyone be so kind to explain it? Can't find literally any explanations online. I swear there're are too many questions. What was real and what wasn't? What did that short life when he was a painter had to do with anything? Even more importantly, what does he mean in the end when he says to his mother "It's you"? All those flashbacks to when he was a toddler being cared by his mom, what does that have to do once again with anything? haha. Oh, and I wonder why was the initial title The Education of Fredrick Fitzell. What was his education actually about? Anyhow if anyone's cool to explain, major thanks!

I think its a movie about drug abuse and how addicts are chasing that next high to escape their own reality. All the sequences are hallucinations under the effects of mercury. At least its how I view it. The end was a bit confusing, but I enjoyed the film.

This movie was literally saved for me by the scene after they get to the house. My only problem the movie after that is the scene with the mother. Not sure what to make of it.

I just watched it. I need an explanation. It seemed to the main character was able to use things like that kid was chanting about, to go between time. He was able to live a different life at one point then goes back and makes decisions that put him back in the life he is used to, the life we see in the beginning.

Really enjoyed this movie, and glad that MarK Kermode and I were on the same page. This was better than I'd expected it to be, despite it's inspiration from other movies that came before it.
The idea of parallel universes, and every event in your life existing at the same time, and Mercury being the catalyst to open you up to all of the options. In the end, he went with the line that brought everything together in the end, to the "best" timeline that he worked backwards to. Cindy was never his "totem", his mother was, and that's what he was chasing all along.

I really really liked it .

Where are the bird chirping sounds?????

It's an interesting trip on regrets, addiction, and guilt with really good acting. 
However, many parts in the story keep annoying me, some of it from the mind-bending elements (which I usually love), but mostly on the main relationship between Fred and the girl or the social commentary that just doesn't hit. Maybe I'm doing too much thinking for it that it lowered my enjoyment because the film went on a surprisingly emotional route, but I ended up feeling hollow somehow.

My review is always listen to your mom and always love your mom,turn you life back on rail ,dangerous is dangerous ,its causes too much .

I think this movie is basically about Love. I don’t know if the writer/director of the film had lost a parent in his life. I think the mood of the movie the thriller and flashbacks is just for theatrical effects. A lot of people focused more on the flashbacks than the real big picture which is Love. We all think we need so much extra in our life, we spend so much time looking for something that may or may not lead to our destruction but we tend to forget the simple things and those who truly love us they matter the most and we may not get the chance to see them again someday.

Just watched, and for many reasons enjoyed. The melancholic music lent itself to the flashback theme, and couldn't fail to draw you into whatever film it was going to be. Mesmeric performances from dylan and maika kept the intrigue going right till the end, when the final scene of his childhood left you wondering what really happened to him back then, and ultimately what happened to cindy now.

Even though her mom can't remember him, what matters is that he remembers her through Flashback and that's LOVE.

worst movie ever. pls pls pls dont watch this movie. will waste ur valuable time

Many different layers to film, you need to go with it. Very much about the multiverse for me, but also a quiet haunting aspect around his mother’s pending death. I think this was an astonishing directorial film, combing a wide range of ‘life’ options according to the trajectory we take through life. The ending is quiet the most beautifully evocative ending to a film I have seen in a long time - what is reality ? where does memory fit, how does grief relate to jolting us into speculative thoughts on existence…….a really remarkable film. Jim Wild

Ahh Mr Kermode... good to see you. i stopped watching the telly box years ago and haven't see you since... glad i have found your channel. All the best mate.

its a great movie. really is. agreed the title change was a bad move

Beautiful movie but at the back of my head I was thinking about the Q2 report the entire time.....

I still don't understand..so cindy isn't real?if she die where is the body??

Great movie. Made you think. Well made. Great editing and performances. Worth a watch for fans of donnie darko

I didn't really like it tbh. Dragged on.

It was a deep movie for me, a loop of regretness. We all have our addiction that we want to escape. Sometimes we do fail n sometime we do survive because of our loves one, ie our family.

Still don’t get it. Is Cindy real. What the hell. Can someone explain to me short and simple. This is what happen…….

underrated movie

This film isn't smart like it thinks. Not a bad movie but also not good. The Anthony Mackie drug one was better because it wasn't thinking it was cleverer than it was. Also nearly had an epileptic fit at one scene.

For more clear thoughts and for those who didnt understand this movie...plz watch "lil Wayne- how to love"as an example😅...well atleast thats how i see it but with more of a thrilling in it...and i loved it and cried.

I love LAMP

Just found on Sky Cinema and really enjoyed it. The soundtrack was fantastic and reminded me a little of Drive although more by the way it struck me rather than its tempo. Very touching at the end and left me with a nice feeling.

Awful movie

You can tell a crackhead wrote the script

It felt to me like a A Christmas Carol in Twin Peaks, it had a decent mood and atmopshere, the idea itself was also pretty intruiging.
Where it lost me is the fact that drugs were a catalyst of events (probably)
It felt to me like a naive and/or lazy writing.
Evil pills, evil bums with body modifications and pierecing, kids with black eye shadow tripping on drugs, pretty tendencious and silly ;)

I didn't know what to make of it initially, but i went back to it a 2nd & 3rd time. It's ambitious & i liked it more each time i saw it.