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.If you say so.
Others might protest that many movies would be less straightforward (as opposed to more crookedbackward) if flashbacks were replaced by actors waving around torches- unless the movie is something like the Hunchback of Notre Dame or Lord of the Rings, of course.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1