Mustang - Montage Sequence - EDITING

Question 1

Where is the slow editing?

Answer 1

• when Lale is walking - reluctance to leave her sisters
• long shots - freedom and peace away from the house

Question 2

It is a montage of…

Answer 2

• long shots

Question 3

What is the pace of editing like?

Answer 3

• girls boredom and oppression, nothing is exciting
• boredom and repetition of the day - all blend into one
• childhood - cross-cutting with Ece - highlight of corruption of childhood

Question 4

How is Ece edited?

Answer 4

• Ece eating edited either side of Lale - Lale ‘escapes’ - repetitive - cannot escape
• oppressed by the edit

Question 5

What images reinforce that they are girls?

Answer 5

• pink blankets engulf them
• Nur cutting hair

Question 6

How are we trapped with the girls throughout the film?

Answer 6

• like the girls, we are trapped with them through a restricted narrative perspective and limited knowledge of what happens outside of the family home

Question 7

What are the 2 flashbacks Lale has in the film?
and
What are the flashbacks depicted as?

Answer 7

• as she sleeps after Ece’s funeral - brief memory of Ece smiling
• sleeps on the bus to Istanbul, dreams of her eldest sisters in the back of Yasin’s truck on the way to the football match
• depicted as golden moments through their soft//diffused lighting - inclusion marks them as important recollections for Lale at times of happiness