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  Battleship Potemkin 1925

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  One scene where I saw collisions was in the stair case scene. The mother is the main subject, you see her carrying her son then it switches to a crowd shot of the people running down the stairs. In this crowd shot there are many people who have fallen and are getting stepped on in the moment. This collision is used in contrasting shots to make the viewer feel more connected to the the individuals getting terrorized in…

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  Battleship Potemkin 1925

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  An instance of discontinuity first appears around 8 minutes into the film. we see someone with a mustache preparing old meat on the chop block. The film then cuts to a sailor greasing up a cannon and polishing things around the ship. The contrast of the hardworking sailors and their reward shows injustice on the ship

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  Midnight in Paris 2011

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  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  M 1931

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  The most important shot in the first 30 Minutes of M is the one of Elsie walking down the street. The Lateral Tracking shot stays with Elsie as other people are coming in and out of the frame. It later pans and focuses on a sign saying there is a child molestor, then a silhouette appears on the sign masking part of the message and the shot ends. I think the shot tells us that there is always someone watching you even though you may be in a crowd

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