The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Flashback in film rarely works.
The past is what the past is.
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
The past is but the past of a beginning.
Other people's lives come at us without a backstory most of the time. The present is like that.
Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.
The past has to inform the present.
If you keep having to dip into the story's past to explain the present, then there's a good chance your real story's in the past, and you're just using the present as a vehicle to deliver us there.
The past is where its supposed to be.