Bazin states that the silent film had reached its peak. Sound has given a re birth of a new cinema. Bazin breaks up representation into two categories, those that relate to the plastics of the image and those that relate to the resources of the montage. Plastics includes the styles, makeup, performance, lighting, framing and composition. Montage gave birth to film as an art, setting it apart from photography.

Bazin also talks about how montage can be invisible. Scenes were broken down just for one purpose, namely, to analyze an episode according to the material or dramatic logic of the scene. Also, Montage by attraction, which is reinforcing the meaning of one image by association with another image. I understand this through text, but would be helpful to see an example through film to fully understand the concept.
Through the evolution of editing since the advent of sound, the films based on plastic were “expressionist or symbolist” and the new form of story telling is “analytic and dramatic” There is a clear difference between film with or without sound and the viewers reaction to those.