"Match-cut" at 7:30

Did any other film screenplay aficionados catch that visual double-entendre of the transitional device known as a "match-cut" at about the 7:30 mark, where the scene transitions from the setting sun in the background at the end of one scene to the flame of an igniting wooden match in the foreground at the start of the next scene, as a blatant nod to the "match-cut" name of that style of transition?

I thought that was brilliant on many levels; but I think it might have gone way over the heads of many viewers who didn't pick up the subtle nuance of that transition, thinking it was just a clever visual but unaware of the "in-school" name of that transitional device.

That was a nicely done little nugget for all those who have ever been a film school student.




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