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I hope none of you missed the scenes where a conversation between five people is interrupted five times to give us a grainy, gritty black-and-white freezeframe, with their name, job title and nationality digitally teletyping across the bottom corner.
Man 1: So, when is "five" going to lay its cards
freezeframe! caption unrolls: Jack Steel, FBI Counter-Terrorism Unit, Grew up in Jersey, 2 kids, Ruth and Sam.
Man 1: on the table?
Not only did I forget the text info a second after it had vanished, not only did this punctuation violently disrupt any rhythm of dialogue or drama, but it seemed an incredibly lazy alternative to telling us about character through speech and behaviour. |
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