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The use of "flashback" is a common device in movies, as well as in literary biography, often when the lead character ( or subject) has a tragic and widely-reported death. This technique was used with several of the book format biographies of Jayne Mansfield, and one about the female evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson. It is also called the back-to-front perspective, a term borrowed from Engineering drawing, drafting, etc.

Flashback can also be effective in helping us understand a character's thought processes, as he (or she) looks back on what happened and considers what resulted. But in addition, it can be used by the director or the narrator if the lead character has died. In the case of the Gandhi movie, we are about to get a retrospective of his life, and the film-maker decided to use his death as our starting point and then flash back; this lets the viewer follow along with how Gandhi became the beloved icon whose death was mourned by millions.

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