I chose a scene from one of my favorite films, Eternal
Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. The editing was crucial in this scene because it
was one of Jim Carrey’s last memories of Kate Winslet and it had to depict the
memory slowly crumbling away. The shaky camera movements illustrate the sense
of the viewer being part of the memory and seeing it firsthand. The sound also
sets the tone of the scene, with it being a windy night on the beach, when it
seems as though everything is falling apart. When the music begins to start
playing in the background it makes the audience feel as though the conflict is
finally going to be resolved, and that soundtrack is actually what moves me the
most every time I watch this scene. It makes you feel like there is hope and
things might actually work out. The cuts in the scene are fluid but they also
begin jumping at times towards the end, almost the depict how it is right
before a person is waking up from a dream and slowly forgetting what is
happening in it. I think another amazing aspect of the editing is when the
house begins to fall apart and get carried away by the ocean, to illustrate the
dream coming to an end. The color is also dark with a single light illuminating
the actors’ faces to bring on the feel of the still night on the beach. The
entire scene is very moving and I always get chills when I watch it.
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