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The subjective world of the main character’s memory state is also destabilized by an approach to editing that alternates between elements which are a part of the classical continuity editing system and those which are a violation of its desired smoothness. At 16’23” there is a scene that begins with the woman sitting on the bench sleeping. The man arrives and watches her sleep; she wakes up and they go for a short walk. This interplay first occurs as they sit at the bench, before getting up for a walk.
After three shots in which she is alone on the bench is an image in which he is on the left side of the frame, approaching from a distance. In the next shot he has seated himself next to her, the camera now on a side angle closer to both of them. The next shot completes the shot/reverse shot procedure as we move to her side of the bench. Over these three shots, his position has been maintained on the left side of the screen, hers on the right, with the effect being that we have a clear sense of the overall space and are not confused as to their location.
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