By taking one example scene from "The Big Sleep", where Marlowe and Vivian sit in the car and they tell each other "I guess I love you.", Bellour analyzes the editing and different segment of that very scene to a great extent. Quite franky, his very detailed analysis as well as use of technical terms, makes this text very hard to read and understand. Not only did it seem incoherent and confusing, but I also agree to the Bloggers before me: It takes the author too long to bring across the information he wants to give. Reading his summary in the conclusion is really the only part of the text that helps elucidating what Bellour tries to convey to the reader.
Here, he essentially says that repetition within the scenes resolves problems of symmetry and disymmetry, which creates continuity. (Bellour 75)
After watching the film, I agree that these methods do create continuity, but also by limiting the locations where the action takes place to few places which are always introduced by a close-up on name signs etc. Still, I would argue that even with adopting these film language, the film lacks a certain coherence making it rather hard to follow.
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