The bulk of the film is an extended flashback.

This theme is also explored in the two extended flashbacks found within the narrative.

The novel is framed by the literary device of an extended flashback.

But this extended flashback minimizes our sense of Judith as a free agent.

The movie then goes into an extended flashback which explains this history.

Highly unusually for the time, the story of the protagonist is told through an extended flashback.

Most of the film is an extended flashback, in which Ramon relates his story to a priest.

In the film's final moments, an extended flashback explains the virus' outbreak.

An extended flashback shows events that transpired shortly before the attack.

The film's form is also unclear, though much of it is an extended flashback.