>"why not" counts as a positive.
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>"Not surprised" doesn't. If you don't look back you won't see which version didn't happen. ;-)

OK then, why, in the movies, when the main character is in a dark setting while suffering a flashback, doesn't this main character take a well charged flash, point it across the(ir) shoulder and just flash it? It would make things so much simpler.

Instead, they insist on reminiscing.