The Education of Fredrick Fitzell

Psychedelic, Hallucinogenic, or Outright Bizarre; those would be the words the majority of the viewers will be spitting out following their time with "Flashback". Guess what? This enunciates more than it may come off on the exterior! Not without its caveats but still a resonating piece of art; that if understood correctly, it may well take a permanent place deep-down your consciousness.

"It is never too late to correct our mistakes. And if we do not, we risk repeating them"

At some point in our lives, each one of us more or less faces existential dread. What am I doing? Is it all worth it? Am I on the right track? Concerns like that slowly take over your mind; seek to cripple us from the inside. If not dealt with at the right time, an inevitable collapse into madness or something worse than that awaits in the offing.

While taking obvious cues from Magic Realism, Flashback attempts to throw light upon the root causes of such traumatic & agonizing developments and guides us towards the path of Redemption!

What is life? It is nothing but a series of events that transpired from our own doing. Good Decisions, Bad Decisions; both shape the reality that encircles us. A continual cycle of Consequences and Repercussions that follow one after the other. All because of the mistakes we made or the wrong roads we took, which eventually dragged us to our miserable fate.

What if you could turn the clock back? Go to that exact minute where it all took a turn for the worse! Given the opportunity, wouldn't you take your step back? Would you not pull your loved ones closer and give them a tight, warm hug and make sure to never hurt them again? Would you not put all your efforts to rebuild the relationships you hold so close to your heart? I'm sure you would. Who wouldn't? Let us keep in mind that it is never too late.

I could go on & on and talk about its Mind-bending Cinematography, or its Melancholic Score, or the Staggering Performances (Especially of Dylan O'Brien & Maika Monroe's) in great detail; but I believe, I don't need to. The underneath lesson of life takes precedence over any other prospect herein.

I was really only half paying attention to this film until it absolutely stopped making sense, at which point I rewound a little bit and watched until the end.

They do a pretty good job of revealing the intent and meaning of the film - spoon-feeding it, really, at about the 3/4 mark, and then the rest settles into place even though it remains disjointed and non-linear (which is, actually, the whole point).

It wasn't until the credits rolled that I wanted to do that slow golf clap.

And then I immediately restarted it and watched every moment, learning that there was important information in every scene and every line that made it much more logical, once you understand why those things are important.

I highly recommend watching it twice. Brilliant job. I hope to see more from MacBride.

... and that's just the basis for the bizarre events you'll encounter but also good advice for anyone brave enough to tackle the multiverse probabilities of every decision they've ever made and their associated repercussions, consequences, causes and effects - every single one of them, alongside everyone else and their pathways of possibilities.

Mom is in the hospital, potentially brain dead. Our hero and his lovely young wife visit mom... but our hero is haunted with a memory from his past that he can't shake, so he investigates. As he goes down the rabbit hole it seems there is something much deeper to find which has been suppressed all these years. And just as if think a new reveal is about to happen.... it's 50 more minutes of video filters, scaryish collages, triple image effects, flashing lights, adding up to a whole lot of utter nothingness that doesn't even stop its metamorphasing until even the very last minute of the film. And boy does that non-ending turn into a non-tearjerking stinker.

There was a really good film begging to be unearthed. The performances are very good for what amounts to a whole lot of nothing. Nothing ventured. Nothing gained. Imagine a 2 hour movie that reflects a minute for minute wandering daydream of a drug addict where the sum of all its parts can just be your mind on drugs. No wonder this went straight to video. A waste of good efforts by the actors.

It's definitely a movie that will make u think, but there's so many things that you just get lost (while thinking) and try to figure out what's going on. There are some good elements in this movie: dark atmosphere, the story, Merc.

But somehow all of that makes your mind blow up. You don't understand what's reality and what's illusion. Yeah of course, movies that are unclear makes u think about it and u want to discuss it, in a good way, but after watching this, you be like "what was that"?

But still, it gets more and more interesting when you get to the middle. As some crazy thing are begin to happen. But again, when it gets closer to the end, that's where everything goes crazy, like I don't know what.

Im definitely not hating this movie but it could've been so much better. I would recommend it to people, but only to those who really watch and think while watching the movies.