Video Essay - Moonlight (2016) The Diner Scene

I spent way too long thinking about what scene I should analyse for my video diary. I'd been thinking for weeks that I'd use the final scene from the final episode of Fargo Season 2, where Peggy (Kirsten Dunst) has finally been arrested and is in the car heading back to the station.

But I also wasn't totally convinced. It actually took me quite a while to recall a scene where the editing really got me. And then I remembered how I wouldn't shut up about the diner scene in Moonlight. (Video)

To do my video essay I spent the weekend talking out all the elements of the scene. And watching it again and talking about it again and again and again until I finally came to understand the motives of each cut. It was quite a rewarding exercise, in analysing editing of a scene so deeply, as I came to learn how imortant the intention of every single cut is.