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Babylon
amien Chazelle's 2022 film, edited by Tom Cross, which serves as a prime example of using trajectory phrasing to convey character emotion and narrative chaos. The editing often prioritizes kinetic and rhythmic intensity over spatial clarity, creating a sense of overwhelming energy and mounting frustration. Its editorial style is a masterclass in building complex rhythmic phrases through repetition, variation, and collision.
visual examples
- The editing demonstrates Trajectory Phrasing by establishing a rhythm of repeated actions, then manipulating the speed and emphasis of these repeated movement trajectories to build a sense of mounting frustration and chaos.
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